yesterday’s post<\/a> I led, with dovefoot geranium, the identification of members of the collection of trailing weeds in a back patch of the lawn. Today I continue with a fringe member: small hop-clover.<\/p>\nThe small hop-clover has the classic three – lobed leaves one imagines. Both the leaves and flowers are small: the leaves might be typically around 1 cm across, while the flower heads are smaller. One head comprises many separate yellow flowers, each only a few mm long. The guide says that, if you examine one of those, it resembles the classic pea-flower shape. However, they’re small enough that you might need a magnifying glass to notice.<\/p>\n
The small hop-clover trails over the ground rather untidily. However, it fortifies the soil with nitrogen, so is definitely worth having in the lawn.<\/p>\n
I’ll be sharing more plant identifications in future posts:)<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon. Plants of Coastal British Columbia<\/u>. Vancouver:
BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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