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alsike

British

/ ˈælsaɪk, ˈɔːl-, -sɪk /

noun

Also called: alsike clover. a clover, Trifolium hybridum, native to Europe and Asia but widely cultivated as a forage crop. It has trifoliate leaves and pink or whitish flowers

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Etymology

Origin of alsike

C19: named after Alsike, Sweden

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In some sections, such legumes as red, alsike, crimson and white clovers have been grown for many years and the bacteria for these plants are well distributed.

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T. hybridum, Alsike or Swedish clover, is a perennial which was introduced early in the 19th century and has now become naturalized in Britain.

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“Alsike Clover, from the farm of B. B. Hamm.”

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Alsike clover will grow on a soil too wet or containing too little lime for either of the former.

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Beyond the last strip of rich color, there spread, shining delicately blue, a great field of flax; and then the dusky green of alfalfa and alsike for the Hereford cattle, standing knee-deep in a flashing lake.

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