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White Clover

White Clover

Trifolium repens

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How common: Very common

White clover is a low, creeping clover with round, white, sweet‑scented flower heads. It is common in lawns, meadows and roadsides, and is widely sown for pastures and turf.

Did you know?

  • Leaves often show a pale V mark, and the rare four‑leaf form is a famous good‑luck charm.
  • It helps enrich soil by working with bacteria on its roots to add nitrogen.

About the species

Identification

Low, mat‑forming plant with creeping runners that root where they touch the ground. Flower stalks rise up to about 20 cm and carry a round head of many narrow, white, sweet‑scented flowers that age to pale brown. Leaves on long stalks; each leaf has three rounded little leaves, smooth and often with a pale band. Leaf edges are faintly toothed, undersides shiny. Tell it from similar clovers by the creeping runners and pale V marks; alsike and red clover are more upright and usually have pink to red heads. Flowers in Finland June–August.

Plant group

Herbaceous plants

Habitat

yards and roadsides

Flowering

Jun–Aug

About the habitat

Open grass and disturbed ground, from lawns and meadows to paths, field margins and roadsides; also widely sown in pastures and turf. Common across the country, rare in northern Lapland.

Sources

Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starr 070313-5645 Trifolium repens.jpg

Text: Pinkka: Verso- ja leviäintunnistus - Kaikki leviäimet, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39038

Text: Pinkka: Verso- ja leviäintunnistus - Kaikki versot, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39038

Text: Pinkka: Yläkoulun Pinkka - Kulttuuriympäristöt, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39038

Text: Pinkka: BIO-503 Suomen kasvisto ja kasvillisuus - Kulttuuriympäristöt: niityt, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39038

Text: Pinkka: BIO-516 Hyötykasvit - Rehukasveja, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39038

Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkoapila

See also