(modifié de Coste, Flore de la France) :
Plante vivace de 10-50 cm, velue dressée ou ascendante, à souche verticale
Écologie : Prés, bois, pâturages, dans toute la France et en Corse.
Répartition hors de France : Europe; Asie occidentale; Afrique septentrionale.
(modified from Butcher, British Flora):
NOTE: the French text is more complete and up-to-date
An erect or decumbent, somewhat hairy, branched perennial 15-45 cm high.
Ecology UK: It is common everywhere in fields, roadsides and pastures throughout the British Isles.
France:
Distribution outside France: ?
Fleurs : purpurines, rarement blanchâtres, de 10.15 mm, dressées, en grosses têtes subglobuleuses, subsessiles, terminales
Floraison France : Mai-septembre.
* Cultivé partout comme fourrage.
Flowers: Heads ovoid, dense, many-flowered; flowers 12-15 mm long; calyx hairy, ten-veined, teeth bristle-like, ciliate; corolla pink or red, more than double the length of calyx.
Flowering UK: Early May-mid Sept.