Tiny, low, prostrate, hairy plant. Leaflets 7 to 13 pairs, elliptical to oblong. Flowers white or pink, 3 to 5 mm, in heads of 3 to 8. Bracts with 5 to 9 leaflets, longer than the flowers.

A very small plant, with many pairs of leaflets

A photo of the whole plant, showing leaves as well as flowers

Open patches of short turf, waste and arable ground, generally on rather dry, acid or gravelly soil.

May to August.

Annual.

Widespread in England and Wales, scarcer elsewhere in Britain.

Near scarce n Leicestershire and Rutland. In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 14 of the 617 tetrads.

In the VC55 checklist, (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Native; heath-grassland; scarce.

It was on the 2011 VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves, 2011) but does not meet the criteria for the current RPR (Hall and Woodward, 2022)