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Hop Clover
This small and almost prostrate clover is easy to overlook, except when it finds a receptive environment and manages to spread and multiply.
Most of the time I find it as an occasional yellow highlight in the taller grasses at the edge of meadows and pastures.
It received its common name for its resemblance to the hop vine, (Humulus), the female flowers of which are used in the brewing of beer.
The botanical prefix, Trifolium, is simply Latin for "three-leaved" and the suffix, procumbens, tells us it is a "low-lying plant."
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