I see and often visit , almost, Kashmir; through your lovely pictures.....thanks for the upload and sharing the details, Gurcharan ji.
On 18 May 2012 10:49, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > This was the first interesting plant I clicked on this trip to Kashmir. > While passing through Kathua on way to Jammu, we thought of paying a > courtesy call to my niece who stays there. I found it growing in a > vegetable bed in their house, a plant that set me to thinking. I had known > (most books key out like that) genus Trifolium to be differentiated by its > persistent petals and/or digitately (palmately) trifoliate leaves. I knew > another Trifolium, T. dubium from Kashmir with yellow flowers, but much > smaller heads almost the size of Medicago lupulina. This one had yellow > flowers, much larger head, persistent petals which turn brown, almost straw > coloured in fruit, but interesting pinnately trifoliate leaves (central > leafet on a much longer stalk. Finally I was able to identify it as > Trifolium campestre Schreb., > > > *Trifolium campestre* Schreb., J. Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abt. 1(Heft 16): > t. 253. 1804 > > Common names: great hop trefoil, hop clover, hop trefoil, large hop clover > > Annual erect or ascending herb with pinnately trifoliate leaves; stipules > up to 8 mm long, adnate to prtiole for half its length; lateral leaflets > sessile, terminal on 3-7 mm long stalk, leaflets obovate8-15 mm long, > margin entire in lower part, serrate in upper part; flowers yellow in > globose to cylindical head-like racemes on up to 3 cm long peduncle; > pedicel 1-2 mm long; calyx white, 2-3 mm long; corolla yellow, persistent, > turning brown in fruit. > > The plant is useful fodder, but less commonly cultivated, usually growing > naturally. > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- Regards Rajesh Sachdev http://project-matheran.webs.com https://www.facebook.com/leopardguy
