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clovers
Trifolium
Clover or trefoil are common names for plants of the genus Trifolium (Latin, tres "three" + folium "leaf"), consisting of about 300 species of plants in the leguminous pea family Fabaceae. A group of clovers is called a cluff. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution; the highest diversity is found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, but many species also occur in South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics. They are...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Oxford Universal History of Plants, Part Two
Robert Morison · 1669 · p.667
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.120
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.255
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.254
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.621
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.256
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.257
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.455
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.369
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.166
Garden of Health
1507 · p.367
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.851
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51876.