Found in grassland all over the country, this plant is sometimes sown by farmers as a crop to re-introduce nitrogenous content to the soil typically following the cropping of cereals or wheat. This means that a good deal of what you see in our intensively farmed English countryside is actually planted. But not the one above which although growing in stony ground was as splendid a plant of T. pratense as I have ever seen.
Edge of Tobermory Harbour, Mull, Scotland, 17th June 2001
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Added on 6th November 2004, amended 5th February 2005