White Clover

White Clover
White clover can be a pretty ground cover, but this perennial plant spreads rapidly and can quickly crowd out grass and other desirable plantings, therefore classifying it as a weed.

White Clover
Trifolium repens L.
Family: Fabaceae, Pea
Genus: Trifolium ...

habitat
White Clover has been introduced into North America from Europe and has
become established in meadows, waste places, lawns and moist places
where it appears to be native. It is often associated with Kentucky
Bluegrass.

Blue-white clover, Blue-white trigonella, Sweet trefoil, Curd herb, Blue melilot
Estonian
Sinine lambalääts
Finnish
Sinisarviapila, Sinihärkylä
French ...

White Clover is the most common clover to produce four-leafed sports. If a four-leafed clover were collected root & all, it can become a regular little dynamo of lucky-clover foliage.

white clover (Trifolium repens) has hairless (i.e. glabrous) stems and leaves. Its white or pinkish-coloured flowers are arranged in globular clusters containing numerous flowers. These clusters are borne on long stalks in the leaf forks (i.e. axils).

White clover is a small, perennial, herbaceous plant, having its stem recumbent on the ground, from which its roots emerge. The leaves are trifoliated, sometimes spotted with white or a darker colored stain.

Trifolium repens (White Clover)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae ...

Small White Clover [English]: Trifolium nigrescens
Small White Clover [English]: Trifolium nigrescens nigrescens
Small White Fawnlily [English]: Erythronium albidum
Small White Lady's-Slipper [English]: Cypripedium candidum ...

(Hairy Canaryflower) - A low growing evergreen subshrub that grows to 1 to 2 feet tall with a woody base and soft gray-white fuzzy foliage composed of three sessile 1 inch long oval leaflets subtended by similarly shaped stipules and white ...

Alsike Clover, Red Clover, White Clover
Arrowgrass
Baneberry, Dolls Eyes, White Cohosh, Snakeberry
Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Black Locust
Bleeding Heart, Squirrel Corn, Dutchmans Breeches
Bloodroot
Bouncing Bet and Cow Cockle ...

The shamrock, a symbol of Ireland and a registered trademark of the Republic of Ireland, is a three-leafed old white clover, ...

John's Wort, Wayfaring Tree, Weld, Welsh Mudwort, Welsh Poppy, Welsh Star of Bethlehem, Welted Thistle, Western Clover, Western Gorse, White Beak-sedge, White Bryony, White Butterbur, White Campion, White Clover, White Dead-nettle, White Frog Orchid, ...

Seeding the lawn around the tree with white clover as well as grass, or with bird's-foot trefoil or crimson clover, will provide extra nitrogen.

Trifolium repens (Leguminosae) - White clover is best known for its nectar, which makes excellent honey. It shares many of the virtues of red clover (see above), and also has a history of medicinal use...

As I was researching for these plant pages I learned that apparently non-Indian herbalist types now are dissing white clover and lavendar clover, in favor of this red clover I got the pic of.

However, white clover (Trifolium repens, pea family) poisoning, when it occurs, causes cyanotic or estrogenic (hormone) symptoms, especially in swine.

Species and varieties
Trifolium fragiferum (Strawberry Clover)
Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)
Trifolium repens (White Clover)
Trifolium fragiferum ssp. bonannii synonym of Trifolium fragiferum (Strawberry Clover) ...

The actual species of the true shamrock has long been debated, but the plants most often favored and used are the white clover (Trifolium repens), the black medic (Medicago lupulina), the wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), ...

Pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV)
Bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMB)
Pea mosaic virus (PMV)
White clover mosaic virus (WCMV) ...

Often marketed as shamrocks or Lucky Charm plants, Oxalis spp. are unrelated to the genuine Irish shamrock-a strain of white clover (Trifolium repens).
Care checklist ...

Description:
Good Luck Plant is a bulb that resembles a Four-leaf Clover (named after certain sectors of the creeping stems of Trifolium repens, a forage crop also known as White Clover or Shamrock).

White clover mosaic virusThis is another viral agent that can induce weak growth and bring about distortion in the shape of the flowers and induce mottling of the leaves.

white clover Trifolium repens
white horehound Marrubium vulgare
white lead tree; koa haole Leucaena leucocephala
white mignonette Reseda alba
white moho Heliocarpus popayanensis
white mulberry Morus alba
white passionflower Passiflora subpeltata ...

See also: Clover, Clove, Medic, Trifolium repens, Green