Trifolium fragiferum

Trifolium fragiferum, the strawberry clover,[2][3] is a herbaceous perennial plant species in the bean family Fabaceae.

It is also cultivated as a cover crop and for hay and silage, as green manure, and as a bee plant.

The inflorescences arise from the leaf axils and have numerous small flowers clustered into a round head up to about 15 mm in diameter.

The fruit is particularly distinctive; the calyx ripening to form a pinkish ball with a reticulate surface somewhat resembling a strawberry.

[4] Strawberry clover is cultivated as a cover crop and for hay and silage, as green manure, and as a bee plant.

Section across the flowerhead
Leaves of strawberry clover, showing the distinctive veins