单词 | mexican clover |
释义 | > as lemmasMexican clover Mexican clover n. a tropical American plant, Richardia scabra (family Rubiaceae), with creeping stems and white or pink flowers, which is sometimes grown as forage and is naturalized in the south-eastern United States. ΚΠ 1874 C. Mohr Let. in G. Vasey Agric. Grasses U.S. (1889) 104 The plant is known here by the name of ‘Mexican clover’, ‘poor toes’, or ‘pigeon weed’. 1944 Bull. Alabama Geol. Surv. No. 53. 209 ‘Mexican clover’... A common fall weed in sandy fields... It may have come into Alabama since the Civil War, for it was unknown to Chapman in 1860, but was reported by him from Alabama, Georgia and Florida..in 1883. 1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 745/2 Mexican Clover, Richardia scabra. < as lemmas |
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