Purple clover

Common Names Cow Clover, Meadow Honeysuckle, Purple Clover, Red Clover, Sweet Clover Poison Isoflavide... 

TrlfoHum. Meadow clover red clover purple clover cow clover. Dried inflorescence of Trifolium pratense L., Leguminosae, Habit. Europe, Asia, Northern Africa naturalized in U.S. Constii. Tannin, resins, fat, trifolianol, trifoliin. 

Common/vernacular names Cow clover, meadow clover, purple clover, red clover, and trifolium. 

A formula provided by herbalist Michael Tierra has multiple ingredients (Walters, 1993, p. 139). Its principal components are chaparral and echinacea (or purple coneflower), plus red clover blossoms, cascara sagrada, astralagus, ginseng roots, and other herbs. Another formula supphed has chaparral, echinacea root, pau d arco, and red clover blossoms. Echinacea root itself is apparently in renewed favor as an anticancer agent. 

No mucronate tip Trifohate, dark green with white half-moon markings on upper surface Membranous with greenish-purple veins Pointed Hairy Red clover... 

Perennial herb with a deep taproot leaves resemble those of clover grows to a height of 1 m with mostly bluish purple flowers in the typical subspecies. Native to the Near East (western Asia and east Mediterranean... 

Fig. 4.8 Navajo Dye Chart ( Ella Myers). Toh-Atin Gallery, Durango, Colorado. Key row 1 scarlet bugler, afterbath from black dye, Brigham tea, brown onion skin, penstemon, sage brush row 2 juniper mistletoe, red onion skin, Indian paint brush, rubber plant row 3 alder bark, Navajo tea, wild black berries, rabbit brush row 4 snake weed, purple larkspur, wild onion, Gambel oak bark row 5 sumac, pinon pitch and ocher, yellow sweet clover, blue flowered lupine, globemallow, goldenrod, grey chamiso...

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