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Clover
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Trifolium
L.
Species

See text Jump to: navigation, search Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Jump to: navigation, search Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepaticophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Jump to: navigation, search Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Fabaceae (legumes) Quillajaceae Polygalaceae (milkwort family) Surianaceae The Fabales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. ... Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The name Fabaceae belongs to either of two families, depending on viewpoint. ... Genera See text The Subfamily Faboideae is in the flowering plant family, Fabaceae. ...

Trifolium campestre or hop trefoil, is a species of clover native to Europe and introduced into North America, growing in most areas, bust speficially thriving in the Pacific and Southern states.[1] The plant is a winter annual, and has distinctive yellow flowerheads which resemble hops flowers. Each head is really just a cylindrical/spherical collection of individual flowers. The leaves are oblongated or elliptical, and the entire plant is made up of many-branching stems each measuring between 10 and 30 cm.[2] Clover (Trifolium) is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the pea family Fabaceae. ... World map showing Europe (geographically) When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Jump to: navigation, search World map showing North America (geographically) A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and... (Hops redirects here. ...


The habitat of this clover is fields, roadsides, wastelands and cultivated land.[3] It grows well under most conditions. Clover (Trifolium) is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the pea family Fabaceae. ...


Hop trefoil is the third most important clover to agriculture because its foliage is good for feeding livestock and replenishing soil.[4] It isn't generally planted, but is considered a valuable herb when found growing in a pasture.[5] Jump to: navigation, search Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ... Jump to: navigation, search For the heavy metal band see Soil (band) Soil is unconsolidated rock particles on the surface of the earth, mixed with organic matter from plant decay. ...


Refrences

1) "Hop clovers," February 1999, http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Crops/Hop_clovers.html


2) Stephanie K. Jones, "Trifolium campestre," http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Plantae/Dicotyledoneae/Fabaceae/Trifolium/campestre/


3) Ibid


4) "FABACEAE - Pea Family," http://members.iinet.net.au/~weeds/western_weeds/fabaceae_4.htm


5) "Hop clovers," February 1999, http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Crops/Hop_clovers.html


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Clover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (774 words)
The scientific name derives from the Latin tres, three, and folium, a leaf, so called from the characteristic form of the leaf, which has three leaflets (trifoliate), hence the popular name trefoil.
Clovers are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species - see list of Lepidoptera which feed on Clovers.
procumbens, Hop trefoil, on dry pastures and roadsides, the heads of pale yellow flowers suggesting miniature hops; and the somewhat similar T.
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