Clover
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Clover is a flowering plant that is widely found in the Northern Hemisphere, and is known as a trefoil (Latin tres, "three", and the folium, "leaf"). The plant has approximately 300 species which are found also in South America and Africa amongst the high altitudes.
Clover has some relations with other plants too such as Melilotus, known as sweet clover and the Medicago, known as the calvary clover. A young clover is known as the "shamrock" and it is popular amongst iconography. Clover is the national flower of Ireland.
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Anatomy
The leaves are heard from scientific names and it is rooted from the is from the form of the characteristic of a leaf. Clovers have three leaflets and so it was called the trefoil. Clovers with 4 leaves are somewhat uncommon, and believed in folklore to bring good luck.
Reproduction
Clovers are small annual, biennial, or short-lived perennial herbaceous plants. Clovers bloom as purple globose flowers, about 1 inch wides and a flower stalk grows up about 5 inches. Pollen pilose erect after flowering.
Ecology
Clovers are a valuable survival food, and they are high in protein, widespread, and abundant. They are hard to digest raw, but this can be easily fixed by juicing or boiling them for 5 to 10 minutes.
Gallery
 The magenta one: T. hirtum the rose clover. The yellow one: T. campestre, Low Hop Clover, Hop Clover or Field Clover. |
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References
- South West Colorado Wild Flowers Linnaeus.
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