PEA FAMILY 



Yellow Clover is a very dainty and interesting plant, 

 coming to us, like so many of our Clovers, from Europe 

 and dwelling upon our highways because it has no other 

 home. It is to be looked for in sandy places which 

 run up a little slope, though on the 

 uplands of New England it often 

 takes possession of long stretches 

 of the roadside almost to the ex- 

 clusion of other plants. The books 

 give it a certain forage value, but 

 undoubtedly there are better Clo- 

 vers. At any rate, it is not in 

 cultivation. It is a true Clover, 

 having a butterfly blossom, with 

 4f standard, wings, and keel grown 



Y together, the standard outshowing 



\ all the others, and in this case 



* really making most of the blossom. 



The flowering head is oblong, a 

 beautiful golden yellow, densely 

 crowded with tiny florets arranged alternately. As the 

 blossoms mature and dry the head takes on the like- 

 ness of a small Hop. 



Yellow Clover. Trifdlium 

 aureum 



RABBIT-FOOT CLOVER. OLD FIELD CLOVER. 

 PUSSY-TOED CLOVER 



Trifdlium arvense 



Annual. Naturalized from Europe, but native to 

 northern Asia. In fields, roadsides, and waste places, 

 growing in colonies and giving a soft gray cover to the 

 land. Throughout eastern North America. June- 

 August. 



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