Trifolium ornithopodioides

Prostrate or procumbent annual herb; stems 5–30 cm long, glabrous. Leaves palmately trifoliolate, long-petiolate; leaflets oblanceolate to obovate, 4–14 mm long, 3–8 mm wide, virtually glabrous, apex truncate or retuse, mucronate, upper margins finely serrate. Inflorescence 1–5-fiowered, axillary, umbellate, 8–12 mm long, 5–11 mm wide, shortly pedunculate; flowers on pedicels 1–3 mm long. Calyx c. 5 mm long; tube cylindric, 10-veined, throat open, teeth longer than tube, equal, spiny, erect in fruit; corolla 6–8 mm long, white or pink, persistent; standard oblong, rounded at apex, longer than wings and keel. Pod linear-oblong, slightly falcate, 6–8 mm long, exserted from calyx tube; seeds 2–9, ovoid, c. 1 mm long, brown with darker spots. Flowers mainly Sep.–Jan.