Seasonal Wild Flowers

Latin name

Trifolium fragiferum

Family

Fabaceae

Flowering season

June to September

English distribution

It is found mainly in the South and East and is scattered

elsewhere.

See the BSBI distribution map for Strawberry Clover

Habitat

Inland it grows in grassland.

Around the coast it grows on sea-cliffs, saltmarshes and dykes.

Description

Strawberry Clover is a native, perennial, nitrogen-fixing herb

growing up to 30cm.

The flowers are pinkish-white, up to 7mm long and in flowerheads

up to 22mm.

Standard petals are oblong and unfolded.

The sepals and bracts are similar in size.

The fruits provide the strawberry appearance - made up of pink,

joined up, woolly and inflated, sepals.

Leaves are up to 15mm and have prominent recurved veins.

The stems root at the nodes.