Trifolium glomeratum

Prostrate or ascending annual herb; stems few, 10–30 cm long, branching, glabrous. Leaves palmately trifoliolate, long-petiolate to sessile; leaflets obovate to oblanceolate, 6–15 mm long, 4–10 mm wide, glabrous, prominently veined, finely toothed, apex rounded or retuse; stipules white, membranous, adnate to petioles for half their length. Inflorescences mostly more than 20-flowered, remote, axillary, globose, 8–10 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, sessile; flowers sessile to subsessile. Calyx 3–4 mm long, glabrous, tube cylindric-obconical, 10–12-veined, throat open, teeth equal, shorter than tube, spiny, with broad overlapping bases, spreading or recurved in fruit; corolla 6–8 mm long, pink, persistent; standard oblong-ovate, conduplicate. Pod obovoid, 2–3 mm long, included in calyx tube; seeds 1 or 2, reniform, c. 1 mm long, brown, tuberculate. Flowers mainly Sep.–Dec.