28-559: Finegold may refer to: Finegold, California, former name of Fine Gold, California , community in Madera County Finegold Alexander Architects , American architecture firm Finegold (surname) , a surname Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Finegold . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
56-474: A countermeasure to fight the global pollinator decline . Several species of clover are extensively cultivated as fodder plants . The most widely cultivated clovers are white clover , Trifolium repens , and red clover , Trifolium pratense . Clover, either sown alone or in mixture with ryegrass , has for a long time formed a staple crop for silaging, for several reasons: it grows freely, shooting up again after repeated mowings; it produces an abundant crop; it
84-460: A soft hairy plant with minute white or pale pink flowers and feathery sepals; Trifolium fragiferum , strawberry clover, with globose, rose-purple heads and swollen calyxes; Trifolium campestre , hop trefoil, on dry pastures and roadsides, the heads of pale yellow flowers suggesting miniature hops; and the somewhat similar Trifolium dubium , common in pastures and roadsides, with smaller heads and small yellow flowers turning dark brown. Clover
112-702: Is 63, set on August 2, 2023, by Yoshiharu Watanabe in Japan. The previous record holder, Shigeo Obara, had discovered an 18-leaf clover in 2002, a 21-leaf clover in 2008 and a 56-leaf clover in 2009, also in Japan. The first extensive classification of Trifolium had been done by Michael Zohary and David Heller, and it was subsequently released in 1984. They divided the genus into eight sections: Lotoidea, Paramesus, Mistyllus, Vesicamridula, Chronosemium, Trifolium, Trichoecephalum, and Involucrarium, with Lotoidea placed most basally . Within this classification system, Trifolium repens falls within section Lotoidea ,
140-663: Is a creek in a gulch in Madera County, California that is a river tributary of the San Joaquin River . It is approximately 18 miles (29 km) from its mouth on the San Joaquin through where it has two forks to its headwaters. Like Coarse Gold Gulch in the same county and many other places in California, its name derives simply from the practice of gold mining. The mouth of Fine Gold itself
168-528: Is fairly well developed at the upstream end of the Creek. Vegetation to be found in the streambed includes Polypogon monspeliensis , some Mimulus and Cyperus species, Mentha pulegium , and clover . Fish are mainly non-native species in the Creek basin, with the Sacramento sucker and hitch and the California roach found in the Creek. The river banks have been damaged by grazing in places, and
196-443: Is foraged for by wildlife such as bears, game animals, and birds. Clover is edible by humans, although red clover should be avoided by pregnant women. The plant is a traditional Native American food, which is eaten both raw and after drying and smoking the roots. The seeds from the blossoms are used to make bread. It is also possible to make tea from the blossoms. Shamrock , the traditional Irish symbol, which according to legend
224-431: Is known as "clover sickness". When crop rotations are managed so that clover does not recur at intervals shorter than eight years, it grows with much of its pristine vigor. Clovers are most efficiently pollinated by bumblebees , which have declined as a result of agricultural intensification. Honeybees can also pollinate clover, and beekeepers are often in heavy demand from farmers with clover pastures. Farmers reap
252-431: Is palatable to and nutritious for livestock ; it fixes nitrogen using symbiotic bacteria in its root nodules , reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers ; it grows in a great range of soils and climates ; and it is appropriate for either pasturage or green composting . In many areas, particularly on acidic soil , clover is short-lived because of a combination of insect pests, diseases and nutrient balance; this
280-483: Is roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of where Fort Miller used to be (which is now under Millerton Lake ). The headwaters of the main Creek are on the south slope of Thornberry Mountain at 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above sea level, and its course downstream is overall in a south-westwards direction to the San Joaquin with a fall of 3,600 feet (1,100 m) along its length downstream of its tributaries. Its minor tributaries are largely ephemeral, drying up in
308-820: The Dumna Yokuts 's traditional territory ran along the north bank of the San Joaquin and included the mouth of Fine Gold. There are three known archaeological sites on the Creek, one a standing two-story house. Mining in the area is documented in Robert A. Eccleston 's diary of the Mariposa War , and Eccleston himself mined there shortly after the war. Eccleston recorded little success, unlike N. H. Stockton who in September and October 1850 claimed to have made more than US$ 30 (equivalent to $ 1,099 in 2023) per day some days in his journal. Fine Gold Creek divided
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#1732791119168336-611: The legume family Fabaceae originating in Europe. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution with the highest diversity in the temperate Northern Hemisphere , but many species also occur in South America and Africa , including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics. They are small annual , biennial , or short-lived perennial herbaceous plants, typically growing up to 30 cm (12 in) tall. The leaves are trifoliate (rarely, they have four or more leaflets;
364-404: The 20th century substantially displaced clover as a crop, with negative effects on pollinators, but in the 1990s and 2010s, the cost of industrially-fixed nitrogen rose substantially, approximately doubling, and reviving interest in forage mixes that include clover. As the fixation process in energy-intensive, prices are closely tied to energy prices. The 21st century also took interest in clover as
392-623: The Creek is part of the traditional territory of the Mono Native American people of North Fork , with the upper part in traditional Chukchansi Yokuts territory although the Chukchansi largely live nowadays in the Picayune Rancheria area at Coarsegold. There were Mono hamlets in the lower part. The Dalinchi Yokuts 's traditional territory encompassed lower Fine Gold, O'Neals, and part of Coarse Gold Gulch , and
420-486: The Creek watershed, and Ambystoma californiense , western spadefoot, and western pond turtle have been recorded there. The Creek watershed is sparsely populated, with access roads to farms, and scattered housing with mostly single-family homes. It is traversed by Hidden Lake Boulevard, Ralston Way, and County Road 210. Where it joins Millerton Lake, County Road 216 provides access to a small residential area named Hidden View, and Hidden Lake Estates. The lower part of
448-800: The Hildreth Mining District on the west from the Fresno Mining District on the east. In an 1894 survey, the California State Mining bureau recorded, amongst others: This Madera County, California -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Clover subg. Chronosemium subg. Trifolium Clovers , also called trefoils , are plants of the genus Trifolium (from Latin tres 'three' and folium 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in
476-512: The San Joaquin, or even through a tunnel from Kerckhoff Lake , and supplemented by the inflow from Fine Gold itself. Madera Irrigation District had considered a similar project in 1991, and discarded it because of the pumping requirement. The environs of Fine Gold comprise woodland foothills, mainly oak, digger pines, and willows, interspersed with occasional grassland and riparian habitat that includes Fraxinus latifolia , and various Populus , Salix , and Cephalanthus species. This
504-523: The basal position of Lotoidea , because they were ancestral. Aside from considering this section basal, they did not propose relationships between other sections. Since then, molecular data has both questioned and confirmed the proposed phylogeny from Zohary and Heller. A genus-wide molecular study has since proposed a new classification system, made up of two subgenera, Chronosemium and Trifolium. This recent reclassification further divides subgenus Trifolium into eight sections. The molecular data supports
532-401: The benefits of increased reseeding that occurs with increased bee activity, which means that future clover yields remain abundant. Beekeepers benefit from the clover bloom, as clover is one of the main nectar sources for honeybees . Trifolium repens , white or Dutch clover, is a perennial abundant in meadows and good pastures. The flowers are white or pinkish, becoming brown and deflexed as
560-604: The corolla fades. Trifolium hybridum , alsike or Swedish clover, is a perennial which was introduced early in the 19th century and has now become naturalized in Britain. The flowers are white or rosy, and resemble those of Trifolium repens . Trifolium medium , meadow or zigzag clover, a perennial with straggling flexuous stems and rose-purple flowers, has potential for interbreeding with T. pratense to produce perennial crop plants. Other species are: Trifolium arvense , hare's-foot trefoil; found in fields and dry pastures,
588-592: The grazing, local roads, and the construction of the Millerton Lake, from which fish like the green sunfish invade the Creek, have reduced the Creek's biodiversity. The whole watershed had been designated an Aquatic Diversity Management Area of the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. At the mouth of the Creek, where it is inundated by Millerton Lake, the river banks are moderately steep. There are eight special status plant species in
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#1732791119168616-419: The largest and least heterogeneous section. Lotoidea contains species from America, Africa, and Eurasia, considered a clade because of their inflorescence shape, floral structure, and legume that protrudes from the calyx. However, these traits are not unique to the section, and are shared with many other species in other sections. Zohary and Heller argued that the presence of these traits in other sections proved
644-476: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Finegold&oldid=1188658097 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fine Gold, California Fine Gold Creek , in Fine Gold Gulch ,
672-719: The more leaflets the leaf has, the rarer it is; see four-leaf clover ), with stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk, and heads or dense spikes of small red, purple, white, or yellow flowers; the small, few-seeded pods are enclosed in the calyx . Other closely related genera often called clovers include Melilotus (sweet clover) and Medicago ( alfalfa or Calvary clover ). As legumes , clovers fix nitrogen using symbiotic bacteria in their root nodules , and are used as an alternative or supplement to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers . They are also valuable food source for grazing livestock and bees. The domestication of clover caused substantial increases in agricultural productivity. Clover
700-459: The rural landscape; adding clover made livestock feed more nutritious. Honey production also rose drastically, and clover remained the main nectar source for bees until the mid-twentieth century. Clover was carried around the world as a crop by European colonists , and some clover species became invasive in some areas. Imports of guano and the development of the Haber-Bosch process in
728-438: The summer. Most of its length comprises long lengths of sand-bottomed creek bed connecting a few rocky pools, which are between 1 and 2 metres deep in the summer months. The total area of the Creek drainage basin is 90 square miles (23,000 ha), and the basin's northern boundary is at 4,400 feet (1,300 m) above sea level. A reservoir on the Creek was considered in 2005, with water to be pumped from Millerton Lake or
756-581: Was coined by Saint Patrick for the Holy Trinity , is commonly associated with clover, although alternatively sometimes with the various species within the genus Oxalis , which are also trifoliate. Clovers occasionally have four leaflets, instead of the usual three. These four-leaf clovers , like other rarities, are considered lucky. Clovers can also have five, six, or more leaflets, but these are rarer still. The clover's outer leaf structure varies in physical orientation. The record for most leaflets
784-526: Was first domesticated in Spain in around the year 1000. During European urbanization, crop rotations involving clover became essential for replacing the fixed nitrogen exported to cities as food. Increased soil nitrogen levels from the spreading use of clover were one of the main reasons why European agricultural production in 1880 was about 275% of the production in 1750. Fields of clover, used as forage and newly-invented silage , became an important part of
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