clover
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When combined with wildflowers and clovers, “you start to have a lawn that can take some traffic, but you’re not going to be out playing football or letting your giant dogs run over it constantly.”
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All types — alfalfa, mung bean, clover and radish — can harbor dangerous bacteria in their seeds, Marler explains.
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Legumes, such as commonly used crimson clover, Austrian field pea and common vetch, are nitrogen “fixers.”
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Often viewed as water-hogs requiring high levels of maintenance, lawns can be made more ecologically friendly by mixing in drought-tolerant species such as clover and blue star creeper.
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Habitat loss and competition from invasive plants such as bluegrass and white clover nearly doomed running buffalo clover, one of the few native clovers in the eastern U.S.
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