Dragon Blood Clover seed Trifolium repens
LATIN NAME: Trifolium repens
COMMON NAME: White Clover
The clover spreads its round, three-parted leaflets and the white, rounded flower heads low over the ground, and the creeping stems root as they go. The low, creeping, perennial plant carries the small, three-parted, often marked leaflets on the long stalks and the rounded heads of the small, white or pinkish, pea-like flowers through the summer, one of the fine, steady sights of the meadow and the lawn, drawing the bees in the numbers. The plant has a very long record as the fine, nitrogen-feeding cover of the pastures, and it is a fine, historic presence of the meadow. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The clover is a historic subject of the plant science, and the three-parted leaflets keep showing up in the work on the pasture legumes. The way the creeping stems and the rounded heads of the small, pea-like flowers feed the nitrogen into the soil through the root nodules has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the pasture legumes, the green manures and the members of the pea family. The marked leaflets and the creeping habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the clover is a regular subject of the work on the rounded heads of the cool world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The clover is a fine, steady plant of the meadow and the pasture. The rounded heads of the small, white or pinkish, pea-like flowers open through the summer, one of the fine, steady sights of the meadow, drawing the bees in the numbers, while the creeping stems and the root nodules feed the nitrogen into the soil, and the plant has a very long record as the fine, nitrogen-feeding cover of the pastures and the lawns. It is one of the fine choices for the meadow, the green manure and the study collection, and it has been written up in the agricultural and the botanical papers for the rounded heads and the very long history. It is a fine, steady plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained garden.
Sow in the early spring or the late summer for the sward, and the heads will close over in the first season.
To grow the clover from seed, sow the small, brown seeds a little under the surface of the pot of fine, gritty soil, keep the pot in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings are up within a week or two and grow on fast, closing over the ground. With the sun and the deep, moist, well-drained ground, the rounded heads will cover the meadow through the summer.
Was Godzilla slain on a field of clover This striking clover from Japan has green and white variegated leaves splattered with what looks for all the world like blood-red droplets on each leaf. On a less gory note, this species was once used by the Delaware and Cherokee Indians to treat colds, fevers and coughs. Excellent ground cover for sun or partial shade.