LEGUMINOUS FORAGE CROPS 14! 



SPECIES GROWING IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE UNITED STATES 



T. begariense Morie 



Mountain red clover, T. megacephalum Nutt. 



T. eriocephalum Nutt. 



Long-stalked clover, T. longipes Nutt. 



Beckwith's clover, T. beckzi'itlnii Brewer 



T. involucratum Willd. 



T. tridentatum Lindl. 



Lowland clover, T. microcephalum Pursh. 



Western clover, T. furcatum Lindl. 



Introduced and .Foreign Species 



Golden clover: yellow hop-clover, T. agrarium L. 



Low hop clover: lesser trefoil: yellow clover, T. procumbens L. 



Least hop clover: trefoil, T. dubium Sibth. 



Yellow suckling clover: slender clover, T. filiforme L. 



Berseem: Egyptian clover: Alexandrian clover, T. alexandrinum L. 



Rabbit-foot: Hare's-foot: Pussy: Oldfield: stone clover, T. arvense L. 



Alsike or Swedish clover, T. Hybridum L. 



Said to be smaller variety of alsike with white haired stems, 7". elegans L. 



Reversed clover, T. resupinatum L. 



Strawberry-headed clover: strawberry clover, T. fragiferum L. 



Knotted clover: soft knotted trefoil, T, striatum L. 



Crimson clover: scarlet clover, T. incarnatum L. 



Red clover, T. pratcnse L. 



Mammoth clover, T. pratense perenne Hort. 



Zigzag clover, T. medium L. 



Hungarian clover, T. pannonicum Jacq. 



II. RED CLOVER 



146. Name. Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is also 

 known as common clover, June clover, meadow clover, broad- 

 leafed clover, and meadow trefoil. It is also known as medium 

 clover or medium red clover to distinguish it from its cultivated 

 variety, mammoth clover or mammoth red clover. 



147. Roots. The tap roots which may be forked into two 

 or more branches have been found extending six or more feet 

 in the ground, but usually they do not extend beyond two feet. 

 The secondary roots which are numerous usually arise from 

 the upper third of the tap root and occupy the surface area 



