Hop Trefoil
Patch of Hop Trefoil
Flowerhead
Flowers and fruiting bodies
Fruit formation, pointed sepals
Fruits covered in dead flowers
Trefoil leaves, terminal leaflet with long stem
Trifolium campestre
Fabaceae
May to September
It is found throughout the country.
See the BSBI distribution map for Hop Trefoil
It grows mainly in dry grassland, especially on lime
Hop Trefoil is a native, winter-annual, nitrogen-fixing, herb,
growing up to 30cm.
Flowers are pale yellow in globular flowerheads up to
15mm.
There between 20 and 30 flowers per flowerhead.
Sepals are relatively long and pointed.
Leaves are trefoils with the terminal lobe having the
longest stalk.
The fruits (pods) are covered by dead flowers.
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Patch of Hop Trefoil
Flowerhead
Flowers and fruiting bodies
Fruit formation, pointed sepals
Fruits covered in dead flowers
Trefoil leaves, terminal leaflet with long stem
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