Clustered clover
Trifolium glomeratum
Family · Fabaceae · Harmless
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The small clover of lawns and trodden paths, with tight balls of pink flowers sitting directly in the leaf axils, along stems lying on the ground.
Fields and pasture · Town and roadside · Roadsides and waste ground · Dunes and sand
Also known asbundled clover
How to tell it
A smooth hairless prostrate plant, its stems spreading in a circle from the centre. Leaves of three small leaflets with fine veins. Round heads half a centimetre to a centimetre, sitting with no stalk at all in the leaf axils, with pale pink flowers and sepals curved outward.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No use
Like all clovers it fixes nitrogen: it is good news on a poor lawn, even if nobody notices it.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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