Family: legumes (Fabaceae)
Bloom time: June–August
Size: 20–50 cm
Habitat: forests, forest edges, among shrubs and along paths
Medium clover (Trifolium medium) is a herbaceous perennial with a knobby, zigzag stem, which is usually hairy, only exceptionally bare. It has trifoliate leaves, consisting of three elongated oval leaflets 20 to 50 mm long. At the tip of the shoot, usually a single globose to ovate inflorescence develops, about 2–3 cm wide. The inflorescence is initially sessile, later in development it becomes short-peduncled. The scarlet bracts are 15–18 mm long. If we view the flower under a magnifying glass, we notice that the corolla tube is ten-filamentous and externally hairless, the corolla teeth being long-haired. Medium clover grows on poor soils on moderately warm sites throughout Slovenia.
