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Definition of Stinking clover
1. Noun. Plant of western North America having trifoliate leaves and white or pink spider-shaped flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinking Clover
Literary usage of Stinking clover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Other English names: Clammy Clover, stinking clover. Native. Annual. Propagates by
seeds. Time of bloom: June to August. Seed-time: Late July to October. ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"(Name of uncertain derivation, early applied to some mustard-like plant. ) 1. C.
serrulata I'ursh. (stinking clover. ..."
3. Key and Flora: Northern and Central States by Joseph Young Bergen (1908)
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEE PLANT, stinking clover. A smooth plant 2 ft. or more high.
Leaves with 3 leaflets. Flowers pink, showy, in leafy-bracted racemes. ..."
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