Family: Fabaceae Trifolium striatum     *     Knotted Clover Flowering time: May-July. Annual. Habitat: Found on the coast and inland on open, well-drained sandy or gravelly grasslands. Oval, unstalked flowerheads bearing pinkish flowers with a downy, inflated, red-ribbed calyx, the teeth erect when fruiting. Lateral veins on the leaflets are not curved. The whole plant is softly downy-hairy with spreading stems.

     
Knotted Clover, Trifolium striatum
Badbury Rings, Dorset. August 2012