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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