Trifolium saxatile, All.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 167

51. T. saxatile All. , Mélang. Philos. Math. Soc. Roy. Turin (Mise. Taur.) 5: 77 (1774).

Annual, greyish-pubescent; stems 5—15 cm, often numerous, procumbent or ascending. Leaflets 3-6 mm, narrowly obovate-cuneate, emarginate;stipules ovate or lanceolate, acute, the upper ones dilated, reddish with darker veins. Heads 6-10 mm wide, depressed-globose, few-flowered, sessile and sheathed at the base by the stipules. Calyx readily abscissing at maturity, its tube ovoid, denselyhairy; teeth straight or incurved, unequal, all shorter than the tube. Corolla 3-4 mm, whitish or pinkish, not exceeding the calyx. Dry gravel and moraines. • Alps. Au Ga He It.