Trefoil

Trefoil
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Trefoil (Trifolium) - Among the few garden varieties are some dwarf creeping kinds, the best being T.

Trefoil
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(tr´foil) [O.Fr.,=three-leaf], in botany, name for several plants, chiefly of the family, having trifoliate leaves. Best known of the trefoils is clover.

Moon Trefoil Shrubs are broom like, woody, evergreen shrubs native throughout the Mediterranean, where they grows in rocky soils in sunexposed to partially shaded spots.

Pointed Trefoil - profile
Scientific name: Rhynchosia acuminatissima
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description ...

Showy tick-trefoil flowers are sometimes widely spaced along the stem, but sometimes densely packed.
A leaf of showy tick-trefoil. The ruler shows inches.

Common Birds Foot Trefoil
Characteristics
Herbs with 5 leaflets to each leaf. The flowers are yellow or orange.

Common name: Asian Tick Trefoil, Carpon Desmodium, Asian ticktrefoil - Marathi: जांभळी दशमी Jambhli Dashmi
Botanical name: Desmodium heterocarpon Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Hedysarum heterocarpon ...

Trefoil (Medicago lupulina): This legume can be annual or biennial and overwinters well but needs light, dry alkaline soil; it can be dug in after two or three months or left for one or two years after sowing; sow in March to August.

Trefoil Cress. Trifoliate Bittercress
Evergreen European perennial grown as a shade ornamental. Dark green foliage, snow white flowers. Relatively unthirsty . ...

Lesser Trefoil Trifolium dubium
Nipplewort Lapsana communis
Red Dead Nettle. Lamium purpureum Red Dead nettle Lamium purpureum Stinging Nettle. There have orange-yellow rootsThistle have long tap roots.

The shamrock (or trefoil) is widely used as an unofficial symbol for Ireland.
[edit] County flowers in Ireland
Bog-rosemary is the county flower of County Offaly [19] ...

Hop Tree, Shrubby Trefoil
TE-le-a, TEL-EE-a
Some 11 species of deciduous shrubs or small trees. The number of species recongnized by botanists has varied from as many as 60 (by "spliters") to as few as 3 (by "lumpers").

Anagyris foetida (Mediterranean Stinkbush, Stinking Bean Trefoil, Purging Trefoil , Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae)
Anagyris latifolia (Oro de Risco, Gold of the Rocks , Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae) ...

birds-foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus
bishopweed; bischofia; Javawood; toog Bischofia javanica
bitter herb; centaury Centaurium erythraea
bittersweet nightshade; climbing nightshade Solanum dulcamara
black alder; European alder Alnus glutinosa ...

Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
Bird-of-paradise plant (Caesalpinia gilliesii)
Bishop's cap (Astrophytum myriostigma, Echinocactus myriostigma)
Bishop's mitre, sand dollar (Astrophytum ornatum, Astrophytum asterias) ...

The Melilots or Sweet Clovers - formerly known as Melilot Trefoils and assigned, with the common clovers, to the large genus Trifolium, but now grouped in the genus Melilotus - are not very common in Britain, being not truly native, ...

Seeding the lawn around the tree with white clover as well as grass, or with bird's-foot trefoil or crimson clover, will provide extra nitrogen.

Other common names include: Bogbean, Marsh Trefoil, Water Trefoil, Marsh Clover, Bukkeblad (Dan), BocksBoonan, (Dutch), Ubaleht, Soouba, Jõeuba, Raakelehed, Allikakapsad (Est), Raate, Raatteet (Fin), Trì-bhileach (Gaelic), Bocksbohne, ...

The prostrate "ornamental weed" known as Bird's-foot Trefoil can often be found flowering in hay fields or herbicide-challenged dried lawns in mid-Summer, ...

Synonyms and Common names: Wild clover, trefoil, purple clover, cow clover, meadow clover, trefoil,
German = weisenklee, French = Triolet, Spanish = Trebol, Italian = Moscino
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Lotus corniculatus. Bird's Foot Trefoil.
Lotus spp. Lotus. Fort Bowie National Historic Monument. Arizona.
Botany in a Day ...

EnglischBlue-white clover, Blue-white trigonella, Blue fenugreek, Sweet trefoil, Curd herb, Blue melilot
EstnischSinine lambalääts
FinnischSinisarviapila, Sinihärkylä ...

Purple clover, aka red clover or sweet clover (Trifolium pratense frequently mispelled T. pretense), goes by many other common names, including: Trefoil, Beebread, Cow-grass, Peavine Clover, Meadow Clover, Wild Clover, Broadleafed Clover, ...

Black Medick
Medicago lupulina L.
Other names: Hop Clover, Yellow Trefoil
Family: Fabaceae, Pea
Genus: Medicago ...

Index- plants in this Family
Oxalidaceae / Wood Sorrel Wood Sorrel (Oxalis )
Wood Sorrel is also known as Shamrock, Sleeping Beauty, Sour Trefoil, Sour Grass, Hearts and many other names. ...

Ptelea trifoliata (Common Hoptree, Shrubby Trefoil)
Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii (Western Soapberry)
Ungnadia speciosa (Mexican Buckeye, Monilla)
Xanthoceras sorbifolium (Chinese Flowering Chestnut, Yellowhorn) ...

See also: Grass, Clover, Clove, May, Medic