Florida Agricultural Experiment Station


for the next season's volunteer crop. Under good management
and favorable environmental conditions many plants live through
the summer. Two to 5 pounds of inoculated seed are planted
per acre during a favorable moisture period from October 15
 to December. Lighter
 States may be used
 when it is planted
 with a clover mix-
 ture.
 SW This clover is best
 adapted to low soils
 in northern and cen-
 Stral Florida. The
 Speak growth period
 .; ,occurs from March
 through May. One
 ton of lime and 600
 pounds of 0-14-10
 Sjfertilizer per acre
 should be applied be-
 fore planting. Under
 Sf f favorable moisture
 and temperature con-
 ditions grazing is
 furnished from Jan-
 uary to June or July.
 Hop Clovers: Large
 SHop (Trifolium pro-
 cumbens L.) and Lit-
 tle Hop (Trifolium
 FIG. 37.-HOP CLOVERS. dubium Sibth.) are
 Little Hop (left) and Large Hop (right) are winter annuals with
 readily identified by their bright yellow flowers s s 4 t 1
 and prominent veins in the leaflets. stems 4 to 15 iches
 long. The branching
 stems grow erect in dense stands and semi-prostrate under close
 grazing or in sparse stands. These clovers are similar in ap-
 pearance and growth habits but Little Hop is smaller. Large
 Hop clover has larger seedhead-20 to 40 flowers as compared
 with 8 to 12 flowers per seedhead for Little Hop. The leaflets
 of both clovers have well marked veins and are free of hairs
 (Fig. 37).
 Both of these clovers are well adapted to Florida, the soil and