Incarnate clover, meat-red clover, or crimson clover is a species of herbaceous plants from the genus Clover of the Legume family (Fabaceae). The plant is also known as "Italian clover". An annual plant 20-50 cm tall unbranched or branched only at the base. The leaves are ternate with a long petiole, hairy leaflets, 8-16 mm across, with a truncated or mochkovid tip. Blooms during spring and summer, the flowers are rich red or dark red, collected in an elongated head 3-5 cm high and 1.5 cm wide; individual flowers are 10-13 mm long with five petals. The flag of each flower is not vertical, but bends forward.