Clover [mùxu]? is the common name for plants of the genus alfalfa (Medicago), commonly known as goldenrod, a perennial flowering plant. The most famous of these is alfalfa (Medicagosativa), which is used as a pasture grass. There are many different types of alfalfa, mostly wild herbs.

Alfalfa is an annual or perennial herb, sparse shrub, without a vanilla odor. Leaves pinnately compound, alternate; stipules partly united with the petiole, entire or toothed; leaflets 3, margins usually serrate, lateral veins straight to the tip of the teeth. Racemes axillary, sometimes capitate or solitary, flowers small, usually pedicellate; bracts small or absent; calyx campanulate or tubular, calyx teeth 5, equal; corolla yellow, alfalfa and other hybrids often purple, cordier green, brown, etc., flag petals obovate to oblong, base narrow, often reflexed, wing petals oblong, one side with tooth-tipped protuberance and auricles of keel petals hooked to each other, disengaged after pollination, keel petals obtuse head.

Alfalfa is known as the "king of pasture", not only high yield, but also excellent quality of grass, all kinds of livestock and poultry are happy to eat. The planting area of alfalfa in China is about 1.33 million hm^2. With the development of commodity economy, the industrialization scale of alfalfa develops faster, and the planting area of alfalfa is expanding.

Leguminous herbaceous plants this alfalfa, south alfalfa stems and leaves or aboveground parts. Alfalfa, also known as pasture lodging, light wind grass, even branch grass; alfalfa, also known as alfalfa, alfalfa grass; also known as golden cauliflower, mother qitou. Alfalfa is widely distributed, most parts of China are cultivated; southern alfalfa is distributed in the middle and south of China, and cultivated in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Harvested in summer and fall, washed and used fresh, or dried in the sun.

The legend of clover has a long history, the most authentic clover, that is, the English clover, some people translated as "alfalfa", but in fact, not alfalfa (Medicago), the Chinese usually think of alfalfa is the same genus of clover legume (Trifolium), that is, the domestic The most common to "white-flowered honeysuckle" and "red-flowered honeysuckle", but the actual should be a kind of edelweiss (TrifoliumrepensL) is also known as white edelweiss is the national flower of Ireland. It is said that it is Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to bring the gift of the earth; also said that the name of the lucky grass is derived from Napoleon, a time when he marched through a grassland, found a four-leafed clover, feel very peculiar, stooped down to pick, just avoided the bullets shot at him, escaped, from now on the clover has been a symbol of luck. The four-leaf clover has been internationally recognized as a symbol of luck.

Hope and happiness.

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