A European clover, naturalized as a weed of pastures in Australia, whose fruiting heads bury themselves in the ground.
地（果）三叶草
Trifolium subterraneum, family Leguminosae
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He grows self-seeding winter cover crops such as little barley (considered a weed by some) and subterranean clover, which die down in early summer and come back from seed in the fall.
He had built a rabbit proof fence around his property and developed subterranean clover, a superior form of feed for his flocks.
‘This year, we identified lines of subterranean clover with superior vigor of growth here in Maryland,’ he says.
Local pastoralists reported significant failures of well-irrigated pastures containing subterranean clover, perennial rye grass and Phalaris tuberosa.
Experiments with subterranean clovers, or clover ley farming, helped to improve both soil structure and pasture.