How the flowers look like: description

Luxuriously looks flowering with colorful colors of the field: a solid carpet of greenery and a variety of colors, slightly swaying from the slightest breeze. And what fragrances!

Among such abundance one can distinguish one surprisingly gentle and humble field flower - a clover. People call these flowers - kashki.

general information

A characteristic feature of this, as it turned out, a magnificent plant is that insect pollinators, the only ones, are bumblebees.

Virtually all species of this plant are pubescent meadows, completely resistant to trampling, pleasing the eye with their flowering from the very beginning of summer to autumn.

The flowers are cute, and therefore often used to create perennial lawns and lawns. About these useful and beautiful plants and will go here a story.

And to imagine what they look like, you just need to remember the popular name. This is the very plant kashka, which in the childhood many tasted, tearing off individual flowers from the spherical inflorescence. Thanks to the nectar hidden inside the petal leg, they have a pleasant sweetish taste.

Many people know the flower kashka. His name is not one: a woodpecker, a red-head, a woodpecker, a red carpet, a honeycomb, fever grass, honey color, a meadow shamrock, bee-gnash, kukushkin bread, bee bread and many others are all folk variants.

Of course, many plants in the people are called kashkas, especially during their flowering. But here we are talking about clover.

Description

Kashka (a flower, photo of which is presented in the article) is a genus of a plant from the family Legumes. In total, it has about 250 species. These herbaceous plants can be either single- or perennial. The rhizomes are rusty with age, and the flowers are gathered into a small round head. Each ripe small bean contains only two seeds.

There is another important feature of clover. The roots of this plant develop small tubers, which arise due to a special bacterium (Bacillus radicicola). In this connection, soil is absorbed from the atmosphere of free nitrogen. Therefore, the clover refers to plants that promote good soil enrichment with a necessary and important fertilizer.

Flowers in nature are white, red, pink and other colors.

Bob is the fruit of a clover that is typical of the whole family. It consists of two opening flaps with seeds inside them. Thanks to them, the kashka multiplies well. With their help, this plant can be planted on both private plots and gardens.

More information about varieties

For cultivation in gardens there are different types of clover:

• Mountainous has flowers similar to the colors of a creeping clover. But this is not a creeping plant, but an erect tall plant.
• The meadow clover blooms with red flowers, but with leaves with a whitish corner in the form of the letter "l".
• Middle clover is very similar to meadow, but its leaves are more elongated and without special signs in the form of a letter, like the above-mentioned species.
• Hybrid has an original coloring of flowers: at the base they are whitish, and on top - pink or red.

There are many other species in Europe: clover white creeping, Swedish, pink, red (or bloody), yellow and others. Below, we describe in more detail some of the most famous and common.

White mullet

A flower that occurs more often than others is a creeping clover (with creeping shoots). It is a perennial herb with regular leaves consisting of 3 leaflets.

The flowers of this mushroom are white, enclosed in a five-toothed tubular cup, with a light pinkish hue. The two lower petals, accreted to the sides, form something similar to the boat, and the other two are arranged side by side like oars, and the third is hanging like a sail. It is this structure of the flower that is characteristic of many species from the legume family.

Flowers of this species are collected in inflorescences in several pieces on the shoot, in connection with which the lawn with a blooming white clover looks amazingly beautiful. In addition to all of the above, this kashka is also famous for its rather pleasant honey aroma.

Creeping clover - stunted, so it grows well among the tall plants, forming under them a soft and delicate continuous carpet.

Pink mushroom

The flower (Swedish clover) has a beautiful gentle pink color. It is a two-year-old plant, but more often it is a perennial plant. Bright green stems branched, about 30 to 90 centimeters high.

The leaves of the elliptical shape have a color from light to dark green. Flowers are painted in pink-white and white shades, are collected in a spherical head of the rounded form. The plant blooms in June and July.

About the miraculous red kashke

The most useful and widely cultivated is the red clover. It grows all over Siberia, as well as in Europe. It is an excellent fodder plant, the cultivation of which appeared in the sixteenth century.

Red clover is especially known as an oncoprotein. He is often recommended by healer-herbalists for breast cancer, lymphatic system and ovaries. It is used in the treatment of cancer in many countries around the world.

In addition, the red kashka is a flower that has a diuretic, expectorant, emollient, diaphoretic, antiseptic and excellent anti-inflammatory effect. Flowers are also used for anemia, cough, rheumatism, malaria, colds and other diseases.

The effectiveness of clover for various skin diseases: children's eczema and psoriasis is proved. Apply it and with gynecological diseases.

Fluffy Yellow Clover

All the above-mentioned species of kashka do not exhaust the enormous diversity of native species of this plant.

You should pay attention to representatives with solar golden flowers. They are very similar to each other clovers-perennials: rustling, plain and dark-colored. All of them, like the above-named species, grow in nature on the fringes, meadows and glades.

The most attractive of these cats is clover tilled (in the popular way - "seals"). It represents a small annual plant, strongly pubescent soft soft hairs.

Application

In general, the flowers are not only beautiful and useful for people. They help many garden plants. Particularly good for apple trees: do not allow weeds to grow, enrich the soil with nitrogen and effectively look under the tree.

Also kashka is used in agriculture as fodder (hay) for livestock.

Something from history

An excellent clinical effect was achieved in treating a variety of diseases with the help of red clover in Ancient China, and also in America (over a hundred years ago). It has long been used to treat diseases of the gallbladder, intestines, liver, gout.

Both leaves and flowers have been used for a long time in non-traditional medicine as a source of calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, chromium, phosphorus and vitamins A, B and C. The red clover perfectly cleanses the lymph and blood, normalizes the outflow of bile and the activity of the whole intestine.

Conclusion

Kashka in Russia grows on waste grounds and has a reputation as a weed in the people. However, she fully deserved the right to be raised in the front gardens, at least interspersed with other plants as a background. Lawns clover will give a pleasant freshness due to thick and juicy green leaves and bright cute flowers.