PULSE FAMILY 



THE FRUIT: a pod. 



This is the clover with the large, dense heads of golden 

 yellow flowers that in withering turn a dingy light brown 

 and rustle like tissue-paper. Because at that time the 

 heads turn downward and resemble hops, the plant is 

 called Hop Clover. 



LEGUMINOS^: PULSE FAMILY 



Trifolium arvense, L. 



Green-white having a Pussy-foot Clover, Stone Crop, 



grey-pink appearance Hare's-foot Clover, Hare's-foot, 



Rabbit-foot Clover, Poverty-grass, 



June-October Old Field Clover, Dogs and Cats, 



Stone Clover, Pussies, 



Pussy Clover, Pussy Cats. 



Calf Clover, 



Trifolium: for derivation see agrarium. 

 Arvense: Latin to signify belonging in a field. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: dry, sandy soil of the roadsides 

 or neglected fields. 



THE PLANT: erect; six inches to eighteen inches high; the 

 stem freely branched, with short, silky hairs, weak. 



THE LEAVES: numerous; alternate; three-compound, the 

 leaflets linear or oblanceolate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed 

 or wedge-shaped at the base. 



THE FLOWERS; in dense heads, on stems clothed with 

 short, soft hairs; calyx very silky. 



THE FRUIT: a pod. 



A low, much branched clover, with three light green, 

 narrow leaflets, and oblong, fuzzy flower heads. The 

 corollas of the separate flowers being green-white and the 

 calyx green with pink tips, the effect is a rather soft 

 grey-pink. 



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