Crop Seeds

-boxing glove shape

-thumb is ¼ as long as mitt

-generally two colors on single seed darker on the bottom, lighter on top-green to light brown

• Red Clover

• White Clover

• Alsike Clover

• Sweetclover

-heart shaped

-yellow or red seed coat

• red clover

• white clover

• alsike clover

• sweetclover

-seeds are heart-shaped

-dark green to brown

• red clover

• white clover

• alsike clover

• sweet clover

-shape of baseball mitt thumb is 2/3 as long as mitt

• red clover

• white clover

• alsike clover

• sweetclover

-smooth, kidney-shaped

-yellow-green to light brown

• Alfalfa

• birdsfoot trefoil

• korean lespedeza

-dark ridge through wedge shaped hilum

-Large, dark purple

• Alfalfa

• Hairy vetch

• Birdsfoot trefoil

-Olive to chocolate brown color

-Mottle appearance

-Dent in one side, “like a bird stepped in it”

• Alfalfa

• Hairy vetch

• Birdsfoot trefoil

-seed is shiny, black, and oval

-can see tiny veins in the seed pods

• Korean lespedeza

• Crown vetch

• Hairy vetch

-same size as perennial ryegrass

-dark straw-colored

-rachilla is knobbed

-flat seed

• Tall fescue

• Ryegrass

• Timothy

tan to brown

narrow oblong

flat rachilla, flat backed

Tip is rounded

• Tall fescue

• Ryegrass

• Timothy