PEA FAMILY 



The two yellow Hop Clovers, common in fields and along 

 roadsides, Trifolium agririum and Trifolium procumbens, are 

 both of European origin. The flower heads are pale golden-yellow; 

 the florets when withered turn brown so that the head looks like 

 a small dried hop. The leaves are trifoliate but are not very 

 much like the leaves of the other clovers. 



Rabbit-Foot Clover, Trifolium arvSnse, with gray-pink, hairy 

 heads soft as silk, adorns the waste places in poor soil, old fields, 

 and worn-out pastures. It grows in mass and forms large beds. 

 The flower heads are cylindrical, very hairy, the corolla greenish- 

 white, the calyx tip pinkish, and the abundance of pale hairs give 

 the gray effect. 



Crimson or Italian Clover, Trifolium incarnatum, is used as a 

 cover plant in orchards. The erect stem is one to two feet high, 

 the leaflets obovate, the stipules broad with leafy tips, the flowers 

 crimson, scarlet, rarely cream, in long terminal heads. 



LESPEDEZA 



Lespedeza Sieboldi. Desmbdium pendulifldrum. 



Lespedeza, in honor of Lespedez, a Spanish governor of Florida, 

 who aided the botanist Michaux. 



A hardy perennial herb throwing up strong, wiry shoots each year 

 from the crown. Japan. September, October. 



Stem. — Reddish or brown, hairy, two to four feet high; in summer 

 looking like a bush. 



leaver.— Dull-green, pinnately trifoliate; leaflets elliptic-oblong, 

 pointed. 



Flowers. — Papilionaceous, half an inch long, rose-purple, drooping, in 

 numerous long racemes which at the top of the plant are panicled. 

 Pod. — Small, pubescent, one-seeded. 



The American Lespedezas are a group of weedy plants with 

 inconspicuous, pea-shaped flowers, neither ornamental nor eco- 

 nomically valuable. They are often found along the roadside, in 

 thickets and tangles, in company with their friends and relations 

 the Desdemoniums or Stick-tights. 



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