Alfalfa

Alfalfa is one of my favourite wildflowers. There are so many colour combinations in one flower cluster, anything from plain, deep purple, to yellow or green, even pale blue and purple mix as in my photo here. Photographed (supermacro) at Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area on August 18th last year. The two images below have been previously posted.

"Alfalfa is widely grown throughout the world as forage for cattle, and is most often harvested as hay, but can also be made into silage, grazed, or fed as greenchop. Alfalfa has the highest feeding value of all common hay crops, being used less frequently as pasture. When grown on soils where it is well-adapted, alfalfa is the highest yielding forage plant." From Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa