Common name:
Hop trefoil
Family:
Scientific name:
Trifolium campestre
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the British Isles
Height:
Up to 25 cm
Habitat:
Dry, grassy places
Flowers:
Pale yellow, around 4 mm long, with a broad banner petal curved down at the tip and edges, mostly hiding the other four petals. Flowers form in a dense, spherical cluster around 15 mm in diameter, of more than 25 heads. Stalks and stems have a covering of appressed hairs
Leaves:
Virtually hairless, trifoliate, with the middle leaflet attached by a longer stalk than the lateral pair. Leaflets are crossed by parallel, pinnate, closely-spaced veins
Season:
May to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
