Scientific name: Trifolium repens L.
Common name: White Clover
Description
Habit: A nearly hairless perennial, to 50 cm high.
Stems: Trailing to semi-erect, rooting at the nodes.
Leaves: Alternate, pinnate, usually with 3 leaflets, leaflets toothed, oval or heart-shaped, over 10 mm long, often with light or dark V-shaped mark and with translucent veins.
Flowers: White, with pink to red, zygomorphic, numerous in long-stalked globular axillary flower-heads, 25 mm across, slightly scented; calyx of 5 sepals fused into a tube, without glandular hairs; petals 5, forming 2 free wings, 2 are fused to form lower keel and 1 conceals the stamens and carpel; petals partly united with each other and the stamens; stamens 10, 9 fused to form a tube, 10th stamen free; carpel 1, style 1.
Fruits: A legume pod, 3-4-seeded.
Habitat: Grassland, rarely on rocky ground.
Distribution: Abundant throughout, especially on limestone near the sea.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No