Knotted Clover - Trifolium striatum

Low to short hairy plant with oval leaflets and oval, unstalked pinkish flower heads, usually single, sometimes in pairs. It may be upright or prostrate. Downy, inflated, red-ribbed calyx in fruit.

There are some similar rare clovers (e.g. T scabrum).  Strawberry Clover ( T fragiferum) and Reversed Clover (T resupinatum) have a calyx that is much more inflated in fruit.

Procumbent to erect, hairy, annual; with obovate leaves and sessile flowerheads. 

Either obtain confirmation from a County Recorder before submitting a record, or submit detailed images showing key features.  We recommend that you take and retain a specimen; the County Recorder may wish to see this for confirmation. 

On well drained soils.

Flowers May to July.

Annual.

Widespread but local and often coastal in Britain.

In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi & Evans, 1988) it was present in 19 tetrads out of 617.

In the VC55 Checklist (Jeeves 2011) it is listed as Native: occasional; may be nearly scarce