LEGUMINOS^E 



LEGUMINOS^E PULSE FAMILY 



Trifolium procumbens, L. 



Yellow Low Hop Clover, 



Smaller Hop Clover, 



May-September Low Hop Trefoil, 



Smaller Hop Trefoil. 



Trifolium: for derivation see agrarium. 

 Procumbens: Latin for procumbent. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: principally roadsides. 



THE PLANT: spreading or ascending, about five or six 

 inches high; the stems having short, soft hairs. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; compound, the three leaflets 

 wedge-obovate, notched at the end, the lateral leaflets at 

 some distance from the end ones and sessile or nearly 

 so, the end ones on stalks, having short, soft hairs. 



THE FLOWERS : in globose or short-oval heads, light brown 

 when withered. 



THE FRUIT: a dry pod. 



This Smaller Hop Clover is easily distinguishable from 

 the Large Hop Clover (Trifolium agrarium) by the small- 

 ness of its stature. More likely it is to be confused with 

 the Black Medic (Medicago lupulina). But the leaflets 

 of this are nearly sessile and the dried flower heads are 

 brownish-white and papery, not black. 



LEGUMINOS^; PULSE FAMILY 



Trifolium repens, L. 



White or pinkish White Clover, 



Dutch Clover, 



May-December Shamrock, 



White Trefoil, 

 Honeystalks, 

 Honeysuckle Clover. 



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