Seasonal Wild Flowers

Hop Trefoil

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