Trifolium spadiceum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 165

33. T. spadiceum L. , FI. Suec. ed. 2, 261 (1755).

Annual or biennial; stems 20-40 cm, slender, erect, little-branched, glab­ rescent. Uppermost leaves more or less opposite; leaflets up to 20 mm, all sessile, those of the upper leaves oblong; petioles exceeding the oblong-lanceolate stipules. Heads up to 20 mm in fruit, dense, cylindrical, pseudoterminal, often in pairs; peduncles erect; pedicels much shorter than the calyx-tube. Corolla c. 6 mm, golden-yellow, becoming very dark brown after anthesis; standard sulcate. Legume about 4 times as long as the style. Grassy places; calcifuge. N., C. & E. Europe, extending westwards to N. Spain. Au Bu Cz Fe Ga Ge He Hs It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W) Su.