Flower. Corolla deep pink-purple, heads globose. Sepals hairy with unequal lobes, longest barely = tube length. Leaves sparsely hairy above, more so below. Stipules acuminate with long slender mucron. Not rooting at nodes. "Bracts" enveloping base of inflorescence. Corolla c. 12 mm long. Leaflets narrow, ovate, without any paler markings. (cf. Trifolium pratense). One patch at Bushy Park - area ca. 1 m x 0.5 m.