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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

White Clover

(trifolium repens found at Wikimedia commons under creative commons)

    White clover hangs out around the areas that can allow lots of ground cover. The pastures you see around your Alabama community 50% of the time carry Trifolium Repens which is the particullar type of clover. If you'll look around we carry several different types of clover. Red clover is something that you'll most likely see driving down Alabama's roadways.

    This is a very likable favorite of cattle and deer. They like to munch on this as many chances as they can get. Since my neighborhood is called "Red Hill", We have lots of red clay in the soil and this is a lover of the "White Clover" plants.

For many centuries, this plant has been used in our own culinary foods. It's really hard to digest raw, but we have used them in salads for a very long time. This herb sometimes is better boiled for 5-10 minutes. The flowerhead and seed pods are crushed and used as flour. This can be boiled and steeped into tistane.

Our Native Americans like the Cherokee, Iriquos, Mohicans, and other tribal heads used it in folk medicine. This plant is used to fevers, colds, and Bright's disease.

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