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Legumes. Economically, legumes are more valuable than cereals. Families of legumes are combined with characteristic complex, usually trifoliate leaves (clover) or tendrils (vetch)
Red clover - a massive plant of meadows, forest edges, sparse forests. Of the red-flowered clovers, there are dubious, pre-Alpine clovers. Horse clover with the largest inflorescences is yellow-flowered. Creeping clover has white flowers. Grows well on pastures. Hybrid clover has white-pink flower heads. Clover is a valuable melliferous, medicinal and fodder plant. Has nutritional value. Improves soil fertility, prevents erosion. Multifoliate clover with 5-9 lanceolate leaves is original. Rustling clover lives in dry meadows, its heads rustle underfoot.
In the meadows, familiar
crescent alfalfa … It is characterized by curved, sickle-like fruits - beans. It is a good honey plant. Ferruginous alfalfa and blue alfalfa and other species are excellent fodder.
It is not difficult to recognize another leguminous plant -
Caucasian laddian with complex leaves, consisting of five leaves and dark yellow flowers, collected 3-5 on shoots in the form of an umbrella.
Violet-blue color and long one-sided inflorescences - brushes, a thin stem has
mouse peas
It grows, usually climbing on adjacent grasses, with tendrils. It covers the grasses with lilac spills. Valuable fodder. Turns green until late autumn. The fence peas look like it.
Among legumes, decorativeness stands out
rank meadow … Thin, like a tetrahedral wire, winged stems are covered with yellow flowers in summer. With the help of antennae it climbs the grass. Good honey plant. Occasionally, the rank is tuberous, the owner of tubers on the rhizomes.
Meadow settlers
melilot white, yellow or medicinal, fragrant flowers spread widely in summer. Valuable fodder. Aromatic coumarin gives them a strong odor and a bitter taste. Drought tolerant. Valuable for bees. They bloom again in autumn, and the bees do not part with them until October. For its nectar content, the genus of sweet clover got its name, translated from Latin it means "honey clover".
Of legumes, meadow species are
Caucasian ulcer, blue acorn, motley elk, Bieberstein sainfoin, naked licorice - a well-known medicinal plant, penny Caucasian with original fruits in the form of coins, numerous
astragalus (Alexandra, goat-like) and others.
Herbs
This vast group includes the rest of the grassland plant mass. This includes all those species that so decorate our meadows during flowering. Among them are white nivyanniks, golden buttercups, graceful bells, like pieces of azure - cornflowers. They are considered less valuable, since there are few nutritious herbs among them, but there are many poisonous ones (hellebore, buttercup, larkspur). There are also semi-parasites, such as rattle, eyebright.
The meadows are numerous
buttercups: mountainous, large-flowered, poisonous, creeping, canoe;
basilists: smelly, alpine with openwork leaves and an unpleasant odor; odorous
carnations, bedstraws
Compositae are abundant in meadows: chamomile, hawk, kulbaba, yarrow. Who does not know the fragrant meadow
pharmaceutical camomile? It is good on a bright summer day, striking in its whiteness; almost never eaten by livestock. Pharmacy chamomile justifies its name in full. Its healing power has been known to people since ancient times. The authority of the plant is also high in modern medicine. It is a valuable cosmetic product.
Looks like a chamomile
Caucasian three-ribbedbut it is odorless. This inhabitant of highlands, glacial moraines got its name from the seeds: they have three ribs.
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