Wildlife
Small-headed clover
Trifolium microcephalum
Habitat
Travelers' Rest
Conservation
Weedy
The small flower clusters may have attracted Lewis to this plant as much as an interest in potential forage crops.
Journal References
7 journal entries mention Small-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...