red clover

Pinkish pasture bloom

Red clover is a flowering plant with rounded pinkish-red blooms, widely cultivated as animal fodder and for soil improvement.

It grows wild in fields and roadsides across temperate regions.

The blossoms are used in herbal teas and traditional remedies.

The field was thick with red clover.

medicinal

isoflavones

Plant-based estrogen analogues

infusion · tincture · remedy · therapeutic · estrogenic · supplement · antioxidant · tea · poultice · salve

forage

grazing

Feeding on pasture

  • livestockDomesticated farm animals
  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
  • sheepWoolly farm animal

fodder · hay · silage · pasture · meadow · herd · dairy · beef · ruminant · paddock

botany

blossom

Flower on fruit tree

pollination · bees · wildflower · biennial · trifoliate · stipule · calyx · corolla · floret · globular

nitrogen-fixing

nodules

Small rounded protuberances

nitrogen cycle · inoculant · soil fertility · companion planting · crop rotation · sustainable agriculture · no-till · intercropping · soil amendment

symbolic

luck

Chance affecting outcomes

charm · shamrock · St. Patrick's Day · Celtic · folklore · emblem · Irish · tradition · fertility · Vermont

Categories
Opposites
clover color/variety

red cloverwhite clover

Low-growing pasture legume

crimson clover

forage crop type

red clovergrass

Narrow-leaved ground cover

timothy · ryegrass · fescue · orchardgrass · alfalfa

Family

red, clover, clovers, cloverleaf, trefoil, four-leaf clover, white clover

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G