Trifolium cherleri L., it is an ascending to prostrate annual herb, up to 20 (-25) cm long, usually hispid. Stipules ovate-oblong, free portion short, triangular-lanceolate, membranous. Leaves petiolate; leaflets obovate, retuse to obcordate, 6-12 x 4-5 mm, sessile, the 3 almost equal in size. Heads ovoid-globose, sessile, 6-12 mm wide, with 3, orbicular, often coloured involucre; fruiting head separating as a whole. Flowers 6-8 mm long, white or cream-coloured rarely reddish. Calyx tube 20-nerved, campanulate, densely hirsute; open teeth ± equal, longer than tube. Corolla about as long as or a little longer than calyx. Pods ovoid-reniform, membranous, brown. shiny, 1-seeded.
Flowering in: Mar-Apr.
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