White Clover
Trifolium repens L.
Fabaceae (Legume Family)
▲▼ smaller white clover plants
▲▼ larger white clover plants, with flowers
▲▼ white clover flowers
White Clover:
· creeping perennial legume which produces stolons to allow spread; grows 3-18” tall
· 3 (sometimes more) leaflets per leaf attached to long petiole
· produces white or pink ball-like cluster of tiny flowers held above leaf canopy
· reproduces some by seed, but more by spreading out
· prefers adequate moisture soils, full sun, but may grow about anywhere but very dry sites; tends to die back in dry summer periods
· water-repellent leaf surfaces may make it less sensitive to some post-emergent herbicide applications
· common turfgrass weed—can survive fairly close mowing