Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Trifolium arvense L.

Family: Fabaceae

Origin: introduced

Common names:

Bottle-grass [Bottle grass] (1896-1923?, MA, obsolete (1923, 156)) (5, 76, 156, 158)

Calf clover [Calf-clover] (1896-1923?, Southold Long Island, obsolete by 1923) (5, 76, 156, 158)

Dogs-and-cats [Dogs and cats] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Field clover (1840-1900) (19, 158)

Hare-foot clover [Hare's-foot clover, Hare's foot clover] (1913-1923) (5, 156)

Hare's-foot [Hares foot] (1876-1900) (92, 158)

Old-field clover [Old field clover] (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Poverty-grass [Poverty grass] (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Pussies (1896-1923?, MA, Southold Long Island, obsolete by 1923) (5, 76, 156, 158)

Pussy clover [Pussy-clover] (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Pussy-cats [Pussy cats] (1896-1923?, MA, Southold Long Island, obsolete by 1923) (5, 76, 156, 158)

Rabbit-foot clover [Rabbitfoot clover] (1900-Present) (3, 4, 5, 50, 82, 155, 156, 158)

Rabbit's-foot [Rabbit foot, Rabbits' foot] (1876?-1913) (5, 92)

Stone clover [Stone-clover] (1876-1923) (5, 72, 92, 156, 158)

Watch clover (1900) (158)

Welch clover (1876) (92)

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