Seasonal Wild Flowers

Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

Fabaceae

April to November

It grows throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Red Clover

Native Red Clover is common in grassland and waste

ground.

Cultivated forms are widely sown.

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

growing up to 60cm.

Flowers are not red. They are pink and purple.

Flowerheads are up to 4cm across, made up of tightly

clustered individual flowers, which are up to 15 mm

across.

The trefoil leaves have white crescents.

Stipules have and bristle-like points.

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Red Clover beside a road

Flowerhead

Close-up of individual flowers

Leaves with white crescents

Bristle pointed leaf stipule