Family: Fabaceae Alsike Clover Trifolium hybridum Flowering time: June-September. Perennial. Neophyte Originally sown as a fodder crop and sometimes included in seed mixtures or as part of 'pollinator mixes'. Occurs on waste and arable land, roadsides and railway banks Globose, long-stalked flowers are pink-purple or whitish but become brown with age. The tri-foliate leaves have usually un-marked leaflets and green, narrow-tipped stipules. A hairless, erect plant, not rooting at the nodes Similar: White Clover, Trifolium repens

Alsike Clover, Trifolium hybridum
Photographs: Kingston Lacy, Dorset. July 2020