Trifolium canescens, Willd.

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 : 171

87. T. canescens Willd. , Sp. Pl. 3: 1369 (1802).

Caespitose perennial; stems 10-30cm, ascending, simple, clothed with appressed, white hairs. Stipules 20-30 mm, lanceolate, membranous below, herbaceous above. Leaflets of lower leaves 15-30 mm, thin, broadly oblong, deeply emarginate. Heads terminal, solitary, ovoid, lax. Calyx appressed-hairy; teeth 1-veined, the lowest" only a little longer than the others and scarcely longer than the tube. Corolla c. 20 mm, creamy-white; standard twice as long as the calyx, emarginate. Mountain grassland. Krym. Rs (K).