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| Life form: |
| Perennial |
| Stems: |
| Height 15–50 cm, hollow, hairy stems and branches; lower leaves on long stalks, upper leaves with short stalks or stalkless |
| Leaves: |
| Trifoliate, alternate, usually with a whitish blotch in the centre. Stipules lanceolate, terminated by a bristle. |
| Flowers: |
| Stalkless, round, dark pink flower head, No white area around centre of flowerhead as in Zigzag Clover. Flowerheads usually solitary with a pair of leaves just below, but sometimes two. |
| Flowering Period: |
| May - September |
| Fruits: |
| Indehiscent pod (not splitting open to release the seeds when ripe) |
| Habitat: |
| Coast, pastureland, meadows, farmland, settlements |
Derivation of the botanical name:
Trifolium, tri, "three", and folium, "leaf" and refers to the 3-lobed leaves.
Pratense is for "found in meadows".
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
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