I’m doing a Flowery Friday Flashback to mid-June and a stormy day at Swan Lake, in northern Alberta. Clover has one of those reputations: depending on who you ask, it’s either an abominable ghastly weed or a valuable pollinator plant/nitrogen fixer/Very Good Thing.
This is alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum), and it looks pretty spectacular dressed up with rain drops and just the right light. I always mistakenly thought that alsike clover was a cross between red (T. pratense) and white clover (T. repens), but it’s not, in spite of the misleading name and the combination of red and white colour in the flowers.
Flowery Prose. 