White Clover

(Trifolium repens)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect or ascending stoloniferous perennial

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproots and stolons

Leaf anatomy: Palmately trifoliate or rarely quadrifoliate (4-leaf clover) from stolons, leaflets obovate to obcordate with small-toothed margins, white-membranous, lanceolate, glabrous

Flowers: Nearly globose, white with up to 85 flowers, purple sinuses between each calyx lobe

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}