Red clover

Trifolium pratense

Fabaceae

A magenta meadow blossom used as a gentle blood-and-skin tea.

Common forage and tea blossom. Isoflavone extracts are supplements.

Parts used: Flower heads
Traditional notes: Dull skin · Traditional women's tea · Cough folklore · Green-manure as a plant
Grow · USDA 6b: Short-lived perennial, USDA 4–8 Scarify seed, broadcast in spring. In work: May · Jun · Jul · Aug
Harvest: Young heads just opening, dry fast.

Broadcast in spring. It feeds itself nitrogen.
Dry the heads thin and fast. Moldy clover is not tea.
A bee strip or a cover crop — it does not need a raised bed.

Safety

Hormone-sensitive cancers without oncology advice Moldy blossoms

Lore

A farmer’s forage that wandered into the infirmaries as a ‘blood cleanser,’ which is not a medical term. The magenta heads smell of honey. Isoflavones are why it shows up in menopause aisles.

The Herbarium — a teaching catalog, not a clinic. Traditional use is history, not a prescription. USDA 6b dates are a week either way, not a promise. Do not eat, drink, or harvest a plant you cannot name.