Purple clover is also known as ‘trefoil’, a perennial ornamental plant, among which the most famous is the purple clover as green feed, which is livestock concentrated feed. The original place of purple clover is all over the world, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas of our country call the yellow clover as grass head, alias Jinhuaca, call purple clover as caozhi, and sometimes both kinds of purple clover are called caozhi.

Each gram of purple clover contains 118 mg of vitamin C, 713 mg of calcium, 9.7 mg of iron, and 8.5 mg of selenium. Purple clover can detoxify the body and remove toxins from the human body, act as a diuretic, and can resist inflammation and fungi. It can reduce cholesterol, balance blood sugar and male hormones, and promote the hypothalamus-pituitary function. It has a synergistic effect on anemia, arthritis, ulcers, exudative diseases, bone or joint diseases, digestive tract, and skin.

Characteristics of purple clover:

Annual or perennial herbaceous plants, sparse shrubs, without百里香 taste. Pinnate compound leaves, symbiotic; bracts are partly fused with the leaf stem, entire or cleft; small leaves are 3, with a generally serrated edge, lateral veins extending straight to the tip of the teeth. racemose inflorescences axillary, sometimes capitate or solitary, leafy flowers, generally with a pedicel; bracts are small or absent; calyx campanulate or tubular, calyx teeth 5, equal in length; Corolla is light yellow, purple clover and its hybrid species are often blue purple, amethyst green, dark brown, etc., standard petal obovate to long annular, apex narrow, often folded, wing petal annular, with a toothed tip on one side, interlocked with the auricle of the keel petal, after pollination, it relaxes, keel petal obtuse; gynoecium bicarpellate, filaments at the top not swollen, anthers of the same type; style short, conical or linear, slightly flattened on both sides, glabrous, stigma on the top, ovary linear, sessile or with a slender peduncle, ovule 1 to most.

The key value of purple clover:

In spring, when the leaf and stem grow to about 30 cm, it is a superior vegetable and fruit, belonging to typical green food. It is hot-selling in all provinces and cities last year, and eating it often makes people feel happy and relaxed.

Blood wolf grass is used as medicine, harvested once a year from May to June, and then once every 1.5 months or 2 months, and the dried grass is preserved.

It is an excellent green feed, with the whole plant growing 50~90 cm tall. Cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and chickens all like to eat it, and it grows quickly, does not need to be fed, and does not get sick, with a smooth and shiny appearance. After harvesting in autumn and drying, it is an excellent concentrated feed for livestock to survive the winter, with an output of 1500-2000 Kg per mu.

载重紫花苜蓿 is also a very good green natural barrier, it possesses a strong and unyielding vitality, and is a cultivation variety for windbreak, sand fixation, landscaping, mountainous areas, and barren areas. It is lush green every year, adding an endless happy tourist attraction to the natural world.