Hare's-foot Clover - Trifolium arvense

Low to short, hairy plant. Lower leaves stalked, upper leaves unstalked. Flowers whitish or pinkish 4 mm long, numerous in dense oblong or egg shaped, stalked, silkily hairy heads.

Dry grassy habitats.

June to September.

Annual or biennial.

Scattered throughout much of Britain except northern Scotland, but quite local.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 43 of the 617 tetrads.