Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Alsike Clover, Trifolium hybridum, Seamair lochlannach
Photographs: Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork

Alsike Clover
Trifolium hybridum
Seamair lochlannach
Family: Fabaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Annual. Introduced.

The globose, long-stalked flowers are pink-purple or whitish, becoming brown with age. Tri-foliate leaves with oval-heart shaped and usually un-marked leaflets and green, narrow-tipped stipules. A hairless, erect plant, not rooting at the nodes like White Clover. Height to 60cm

An introduced cultivar often grown as a fodder crop that can be found on waste ground and roadsides.

Similar: Red Clover, Trifolium pratense

Alsike Clover, Trifolium hybridum, Seamair lochlannach

Alsike Clover, Trifolium hybridum, Seamair lochlannach
Alsike Clover, Trifolium hybridum, Seamair lochlannach

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