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Definition of Buffalo clover
1. Noun. Low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States.
2. Noun. Clover of western United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buffalo Clover
Literary usage of Buffalo clover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"A single experiment with buffalo clover at that time increased the germination
from four to thirty per cent. by boiling one minute, but this was considered ..."
2. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1893)
"TRIFOLIUM REFLEXUM L. buffalo clover. ... Running buffalo clover. Not abundant
but rather widely distributed. 305. ..."
3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1891)
"T. reflexum L. (buffalo clover.) Stems ascending, downy ... The common “buffalo
clover” of the Atlantic States and extending into Texas, where its western ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Running buffalo clover. Fig. 2484. Trifolium stoloniferum Muhl. Cat. 70. 1813.
Perennial, glabrous, branching, 6'-i2' long, forming runners at the base. ..."
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