Clover or trefoil square measure common names for plants of the Trifolium, consisting of concerning three hundred species of flowering plants within the legume or Fabaceae. The genus encompasses a cosmopolitan distribution with the highest diversity within the temperate hemisphere, however, several species additionally occur in South America and Africa, together with at high altitudes on mountains within the tropics. They're tiny annual, biennial, or passing perennial non-woody plants. The herbaceous plant is often evergreen. The leaves square measure trifoliolate, cinquefoil, or septfoil), with stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk, and heads or dense spikes of tiny red, purple, white, or yellow flowers; the tiny, few-seeded pods square measure boxed-in within the coil. Alternative closely connected genera typically referred to as clovers embrace maillot (sweet clover) and rosin dicot genus (alfalfa or Calvary clover). Many species of herbaceous plant square measure extensively cultivated as fodder plants. The foremost wide cultivated clovers square measure clover, trefoil, and Trifolium pratense, red clover. Clover, either seeded alone or in mixture with ryegrass, has for an extended time fashioned a staple crop for silaging, for many reasons: it grows freely, doping up once more when continual mowings; it produces associate plenteous crop; it's appetising to and nutritive for livestock; it fixes gas, reducing the necessity for artificial fertilizers; it grows in an exceedingly nice vary of soils and climates; and it's applicable for either pasturage or inexperienced composting.
In several areas, notably on acidic soil, herbaceous plant is passing owing to a mix of insect pests, diseases and nutrient balance; this can be called 'clover sicknesses. Once crop rotations square measure managed in order that herbaceous plant doesn't recur at intervals shorter than eight years, it grows with abundant of its pristine vigour.
Clovers square measure most with efficiency pollinated by bumblebees that has declined as a result of agricultural intensification. Honeybees also can fertilize the herbaceous plant, and beekeepers square measure typically in serious demand from farmers with herbaceous plant pastures. Farmers reap the advantages of magnified reseeding that happens with magnified bee activity, which implies that future herbaceous plant yields stay plenteous. Beekeepers have the benefit of the herbaceous plant bloom, as the herbaceous plant is one in all the most nectar sources for honeybees.
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