Common name:
Alsike clover
Family:
Scientific name:
Trifolium hybridum
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK, except the Scottish Highlands
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Grassland, fields, waste ground
Flowers:
Petals are pinkish in bud and at the base, otherwise white. Flowers are up to 8 mm long, attached by short, hairless, reddish pedicels; produced in a spherical cluster, on a long stalk, of up to 15 cm. Clusters form from the leaf nodes but not at the tip of the stem. The dark green calyx teeth are narrow, and about equal in length to the tube, which is much paler in colour
Leaves:
Hairless, trifoliate, with unmarked, narrowly ovate leaflets about 10 mm long
Season:
June to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
