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Autumn squill - Scilla autumnalis
Badger - Meles meles
Bell heather - Erica cinerea
Borage - Borago officinalis
Buff-tailed bumble bee - Bombus terrestris
Butterfly bush - Buddleia davidii
Cardoon - Cynara cardunculus
Clustered bellflower - Campanula glomerata
Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris
Common comfrey - Symphytum officinale
Common figwort - Scrophularia nodosa
Common mallow - Malva sylvestris
Common sea-lavender - Limonium vulgare
Cowslip - Primula veris
Cross-leaved heath - Erica tetralix
Dead-nettle - Lamium orvala
Dropwort - Filipendula vulgaris
Escallonia - Escallonia sp.
False dittany - Ballota acetabulosa
Globe thistle - Echinops ritro
Gorse - Ulex europeaus
Harebell - Campanula rotundifolia
Hazel - Corylus avellana
Ivy - Hedera helix
Lesser celandine - Ranunculus ficaria
Lungwort - Pulmonaria officinalis
Meadow crane's-bill - Geranium pratense
Monk's-hood - Aconitum napellus
Nectaroscordium siculum - Honey garlic
Onion - Allium christophii
Pincushion flower - Echium pininana
Ragged-robin - Lychnis flos-cuculi
Red clover - Trifolium pratense
Red-tailed bumble bee - Bombus lapidarius
Sainfoin - Onobrychis viciifolia
Scorpion weed - Phacelia tanacetifolia
Sea-holly - Eryngium amethystinum
Sweet scabious - Scabiosa atropurpurea
Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum
Tree-mallow - Lavatera arborea
Viper's-bugloss - Echium vulgare
Virginia creeper - Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Water figwort - Scrophularia auriculata
White clover - Trifolium repens
Wood mouse - Apodemus sylvaticus
Woolly lamb's ear - Stachys lanata
Yellow-necked mouse - Apodemus flavicollis
Yellow-rattle - Rhinanthus minor
Zigzag clover - Trifolium medium

Zigzag clover - Trifolium medium

Zigzag clover - Trifolium mediumZigzag clover - Trifolium medium
© Dr Chris Gibson/English Nature
UK distribution - East Anglia, Midlands, North, South East, South West

This is similar to red clover but the flowers are a deeper purple-red and it has zigzagging stems and narrower, deep green leaflets.

Zigzag clover is an excellent plant for a wildflower meadow. Water voles may store clover leaves as emergency food supplies.

Animals

Red-tailed bumble bee, Water vole

FoliageGreen
FlowerRed, June to September
MoistureDry (Dry)
SunlightFull sun to Part-shadeFull sun to Part-shade (Full sun to Part-shade)
OriginNative