And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
Appreciating the common clover today. (I was glad to find a "Greenleaf" clover quote.)
Trifolium pratense L.
Amédée Masclef from Atlas des plantes de France, 1891
Mountain Clover
photo by J Stimp
Trifolium fragiferum fruits close up Campo de Calatrava, Spain
ohoto by Javier Martin
The Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) on a Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)
photo by Friedrich Böhringer
White Clover (Chiba, Japan, Tokyo)
photo by t-mizo
Trifolium pratense L., Trifolium medium L.
by Carl Axel Magnus Lindman
Red Clover Iced Tea
Note: I got side-tracked a bit by thinking about clovers and shamrocks. I have shamrocks that look like this:
I also have purple ones like these. So in my head I think of those as shamrocks and the stuff above as clover, except on St Patrick's Day when shamrocks are four-leaf clovers. How do you visualize shamrocks and clovers? (Also were you surprised by the clover fruits? We don't have those in my part of the world.)
The Mountain Clover is very nice...in fact, I've never seen many of the varieties you show.
ReplyDeleteWhere we used to live, I once found a little patch (a circle, really) about a yard in circumference where four-leaf clovers could be found in abundance. Never figured out why they would bunch together like that, but it was cool!