Alsike Clover - Trifolium hybridum
Short to medium, erect plant, not rooting at the nodes. Stipules green with a slender tip. It has toothed leaves with no white crescent. Flowers whitish or purplish becoming pinkish and later brown.
White clover (Trifolium repens)
Erect plant, with stems not rooting at the nodes
Waste places, roadsides and railway verges, though most often seen as escapes from fodder crops.
June to September.
Perennial.
Widespread and quite common in Britain, often persisting as an escape from fodder crops.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland but probably overlooked at times. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 301 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham CalowFrolesworth12 July 2012stems hairless
Graham Calowformer Nailstone Colliery site13 June 2017
David NichollsGipsy Lane Brick Pit, SSSI area07 September 2019
Graham CalowFosse Meadows, Sharnford10 July 2014leaf margin toothed
Graham CalowSpringwell Lane, near Whetsone01 July 2016toothed leaves with no white crescent
Graham CalowSpringwell Lane, near Whetsone01 July 2016long pointed stipule
Graham CalowFrolesworth12 July 2012Seed head
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Saharima RoenischLeicester Ellis Meadows10 July 2019
Graham CalowSpringwell Lane, near Whetsone01 July 2016
David NichollsUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm02 September 2011
Graham CalowFosse Meadows, Sharnford10 July 2014
Graham CalowFrolesworth12 July 2012
David NichollsEllis Meadows20 August 2018
Graham CalowReclamation area - former Nailstone Colliery site13 June 2017no white crescent on leaves
Graham CalowReclamation area - former Nailstone Colliery site13 June 2017long pointed stipule
Craig MabbettFrolesworth Manor Lake19 October 2016
David NichollsUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm02 September 2011
