crimson clover

noun

a European clover, Trifolium incarnatum, of the legume family, having heads of crimson flowers, cultivated as a forage plant in the U.S.

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Among lime-loving plants crimson clover has a rightful place, but it makes fairly good growth where the lack of lime is marked.

A rotation for the South might be corn, crimson clover, cotton, crimson clover; this rotation covering a period of two years.

For green manure nothing is better than cowpeas as a summer crop and crimson clover as a winter crop.

Every farmer should see that a patch of rye, crimson clover, or some other winter green crop is grown near his chicken-house.

This year Mr. Hammond has sown a field with a fourth kind--Crimson Clover.

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