Family: Fabaceae Rough Clover Trifolium scabrum Flowering time: May-July. Winter annual. Native Mainly coastal on thin, infertile, sandy, gravelly or rocky ground and among parched coastal grassland A procumbent or erect plant with unstalked white to pale pink flowers. Calyx tubes are bell-shaped and the sepal-teeth curve outwards. The leaflets are downy on both sides with backwards curving veins. Similar: Knotted Clover, Trifolium striatum

Rough Clover, Trifolium scabrum
Seacombe, Dorset. May 2017