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.

For a map see the National Biodiversity Network Gateway

- 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.