Wildlife
Large-headed clover
Trifolium macrocephalum
Habitat
Rock Fort
Conservation
Apparently secure
An eye for potential forage plants may explain Lewis’s interest in this clover, although a showy flower cluster helped.
Journal References
7 journal entries mention Large-headed clover
Aug
8
1805
Lewis: August 8, 1805
...ntioned. I observe a considerable
quantity of the buffaloe clover in the bottoms. the sunflower, flax, green
swoard, thistle and several species of the rye grass so...
Aug
16
1805
Clark: August 16, 1805
...the
Yellow Current are also Common I observe the long leaf Clover in great
plenty in the vallie below this vallieSome fiew tres on the river
no timber on the hills...
Aug
16
1805
Lewis: August 16, 1805
...everal bad rapids. considerable
quantities of the buffaloe clover grows along the narrow bottoms through
which they passed. there was no timber except a few scatiri...
Mar
11
1806
Clark: March 11, 1806
... they had been directed last
evening. we once more live in Clover; Anchovies fresh Sturgeon and
Wappatoe. the latter Sergt. Pryor had also procured a fiew and broug...
Mar
11
1806
Lewis: March 11, 1806
...ey had been directed the last evening. we once more live in clover;
Anchovies fresh Sturgeon and Wappetoe. the latter Sergt. Pryor had also
procured and brought wit...
Jul
2
1806
Lewis: July 2, 1806
... can use the
murcury freely. I found two speceis of native clover here, the one with a
very narrow small leaf and a pale red flower, the other nearly as
luxouriant...
Jul
3
1806
Clark: July 3, 1806
...low on the
borders of the Streams. I observed 2 Species of Clover in this vally one
the white Clover Common in the Western parts of the U. States, the other
Specie...