Scientific name: Trifolium hybridum L.
Common name: Alsike Clover
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 40 cm high.
Stems: Semi-erect or erect.
Leaves: Alternate; pinnate, usually with 3 leaflets; leaflets stalkless, oval to heart-shaped, toothed, often with pale V-shaped mark on them.
Flowers: White to pale pink, zygomorphic, 7-10 mm across, numerous in long-stalked globular axillary flower-heads, 25 mm across; calyx of 5 sepals fused into a tube, without glandular hairs, calyx teeth equal; petals 5, forming 2 free wings, 2 are fused to form lower keel and 1 conceals the stamens and carpel, partly united with each other and the stamens; stamens 10, 9 fused to form a tube, 10th stamen free; carpel 1, style 1.
Fruits: A legume pod, 2-4-seeded.
Habitat: Wet grassland.
Distribution: Established in the Galway Bay.
Native status: Not native; naturalised
Of conservation interest: No