YELLOW OR YELLOWLSH FLOWERS 
Hop Clover. Yellow Clover (Trifolmm agrarium). Pulse 
family. June to September. 
A branching annual, averaging a foot high. The tiny papil- 
ionaceous flowers form heads. Nine stamens united, one sep- 
arate. The finely toothed leaflets are oblong, arranged palm- 
ately on leaf -stalk. Common in flelds and by roadsides. Low 
Hop Clover {T. procumhens) has the middle leaflet stalked. 
LOW HOP CLOVER 
Tri folium procumhens] 
YELLOW CLOVER 
Yellow Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis). 
June to August. 
Pulse family. 
An upright annual or biennial, averaging three feet. The 
flowers are tiny, papilionaceous, fragrant, in long, slender, 
many-flowered racemes. The petals are about equal; nine 
stamens are united in a tube, one is separate. The leaflets are 
blunt-pointed and vary from inversely egg-shaped to oblong. 
Waste ground everywhere. 
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