Trifolium badium, Schreber

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 : 165

32. T. badium Schreber in Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abt. 1, Band 4, Heft 16 (1804).

Perennial with a massive tap-root. Stems 10-25 cm, many, ascending, appressed-hairy or glabrescent. Uppermost leaves more or less opposite; leaflets 10-20 mm, sessile or with short petiolules, elliptical, rhombic or deflate. Stipules 10-15 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Heads up to 25 mm in fruit; pedicels about as long as the calyx-tube. Corolla 7-9 mm, golden-yellow, becoming bright chestnut-brown after anthesis; standard cochleate, sulcate. Legume less than twice as long as the style. Usually calcicole. • Mountains of C. & S. Europe. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm.