CAROLINA VETCH 



valuable as such, but evidently the newcomer has found 



America congenial and it has moved to the by-ways 



and the highways, adorns 



the curb in our northern 



cities, clings to the borders 



of fields, and is altogether 



lovely and delightful. 



The leaves are the typi- 

 cal Clover leaf with long 

 stalks, and the leaflets are 

 obovate and unmarked. 

 The heads are loose little 

 balls, the florets rose-colored 

 or rose and white, sweet- 

 scented and rich in honey. 

 The florets wither, become 

 brown, and turn downward 

 after fertilization in the 

 same way as those of the 

 White Clover. 



A little later come the 

 Hop-Clovers — low, s t r a g - 

 gling creatures with small 

 heads of yellow florets; also 



the Rabbit's-Foot with soft and silky grayish heads, 

 and the Buffalo Clover, red and white. 



Alsike Clover. Trifolium hyhridum 



CAROLINA VETCH 



Vicia Carolinidna 



A climbing perennial. River banks and cliffs. Ontario 

 and New York, west to Minnesota and Kansas, south to 

 Georgia. Frequent in northern Ohio. April, May. 



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