Trifolium leucanthum
M.Bieb. Downy CloverErect or ascending annual herb; stems (5–)15–30 cm long, branching, villous. Leaves palmately trifoliolate, long-petiolate; leaflets oblong to obovate, 10–25 mm long, 7–9 mm wide, appressed-hairy on both surfaces, apex notched, upper margins minutely denticulate; stipules herbaceous, connate and somewhat membranous in lower half. Inflorescence many-flowered, terminal, globular or subglobular, 10–15(–20) mm long, 10–15 mm wide, pedunclulate; flowers sessile. Calyx 8–10 mm long, tube obconic, 10-nerved, densely covered with spreading to appressed hairs, teeth subequal, as long or longer than tube, acute, spreading stellately in fruit; corolla 6–9 mm long, cream to pink, keel tipped purple; standard oblong, slightly longer than wings and keel. Pod ovoid, membranous to coriaceous, included in calyx tube; seed 1, globular to obovoid, 1.2–2 mm long. Flowers Nov. (1 record).
Native to northern Africa, Europe, and western Asia.
Recorded once in Victoria in 1942 near Swan Hill, there have been no subsequent records in this area or elsewhere in Victoria.