Trifolium fragiferum L., it is a perennial herb with usually prostrate runners, rooting at nodes, developing erect plants, up to 30 (,50) cm tall, glabrescent, with long petioles and peduncles. Stipules lanceolate, membranous, up to 2 cm long. Leaves 5-20 x 5-15 mm, ovate, elliptic to obcordate, spinulose-toothed. Flowering heads many-flowered, hemispherical to ovoid, 8-10 mm, with an involucre, of 3-6 mm long bracts, often concealing the calyx-tube of the lower flowers. Flowers 6-8 mm long, white to pinkish, short-pedicelled, bracteate. Calyx tube 4-4.5 mm long, pilose to hispid, the 2 upper teeth spreading, shorter than tube, the lower teeth longer than tube, upper lip of calyx becoming inflated and larger, reticulately veined in fruit. Corolla exceeding the calyx, 6-7 mm long, ± persistent, sometimes ± concealed by the enlarged calyx in fruit. Pods ovoid with long beak, 2-sceded. Seed reniform, brown.
Flowering in: Apr-Oct.
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