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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trifolium repens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about White Clover from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium repens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trifolium repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Trifolium repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-008:
Trifolium repens FAMILY Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trifolium repens
COMMON NAME:
White Clover, White Dutch Clover, Ladino Clover
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trre3_001_lvd
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Roxanna Martin rlm41711_298
April Spartanburg County SC
40-80 flowers in a nearly globose head. The standard longer than wings & keel, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Tim Spira tpstrepens_closeup1
April
Flowers white or pink-tinged. Flower stalks without leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Tim Spira tpstrepens_clump1
April
Stems creeping and rooting at nodes, peduncles arising from prostrate stems, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm150516_068b
May Greenville County SC
Leaflets elliptic to obovate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and palmately compound
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JK Marlow jkm150516_068d
May Greenville County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm53010_490
May Spartanburg County SC
Erect stems bear one flower head or leaf, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm100605_003
June Greenville County SC
Can you find three four-leaved clovers in this picture?
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JK Marlow jkm180601_2661
June Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
Flowers borne on distinct pedicels. Calyx lobes narrowly triangular, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Roxanna Martin rlm6110_19
June Spartanburg County SC
Flowerheads on long bare stem, per www.plant-identification.co.uk
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trifolium repens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium repens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trifolium repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Trifolium repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-008:
Trifolium repens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trifolium repens
1540
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Eurasia
Common
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This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Stipules conspicuous, persistent, & adnate to the petiole
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p036
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p090
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p193
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p033
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p208
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p143
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p181
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p454
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p085
- Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses (Murphy et al., 1992) p148
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