HOP TREFOIL
Trifolium Campestre
Pea Family [Fabaceae] 
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Pea Family [Fabaceae]
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| A very low plant, barely getting higher than a foot. |
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Covered in numerous small dense clusters of paler-yellow flowers distributed along long sprawling and trailing stems. |
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| There are about 20 to 30 flowers in each cluster, the cluster being about 10 to 15mm across. Trefoil leaves n short stalks, the central leaf being on a slightly longer short stalk. |
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| 31st May 2009, Moorside, East Lancs Rd, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| The plant will turn red under drought stress. Flowers turn brownish, and fold downwards. Leaves have minute teeth, more pronounced towards the tip. |
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Flowers in mainly spherical clusters. |
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| 31st May 2009, Moorside, East Lancs Rd, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
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| 31st May 2009, Moorside, East Lancs Rd, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaves have regularly-spaced parallel veins set at a constant 30 degrees to each other. |
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| 22nd May 2009, Seathwaite, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Flowers have pea-type characteristics in close-up. |
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Easily confused with : Black Medick, but Black Medick has a minute point at the end of the leaf, and generally has more fine teeth on the edges. Black Medick is readily distinguished by its very small curled-up black seed pods.
Many similarities to : other Hop Trefoils and Medicks such as No relation to : Hops [a plant with similar name but in a totally different family]. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
 Trifolium |
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Pea Family [Fabaceae]
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