One sometimes sees on a hillside a ploughed field of red earth which at a distance might easily be taken for a field of blossoming trifolium.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Behind the downs rise again, their slopes in spring a mass of colour-green corn, squares of bright yellow mustard, bright crimson trifolium, and brown fallows.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
These are plentifully spread over the cutting; but the trifolium arvense, which came for a few years, seems to have vanished again.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge