Skip to Main Content

Nature Atlas

How Nature Works

Sign In

Text size

100%

Theme

Switch Atlas

Interactive AtlasThe Family Home

The Inner World

The Civil World

The Natural World

Specy

White Clover

Flowering Plants

A low-growing herbaceous perennial native to Eurasia and ubiquitous throughout the British Isles, introduced to North America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Japan and now common in grassy areas across those regions. Its three-leaflet leaves form the pattern known as shamrock, and it produces whitish flower heads, often tinged pink or cream, one and a half to two centimeters wide on short stalks, spreading through creeping stems called stolons that root at their nodes and can extend eighteen centimeters in a year. It grows in most grassy areas, including lawns and gardens, preferring clay soils but tolerating a wide range of conditions, and is grown as livestock forage, a companion crop, green manure and cover crop, alongside culinary and medicinal uses.

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Farmed or Commercially Raised 1

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

GNR Unranked 3

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 4

Scientific Name

Trifolium repens 1

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated 5

Connections

Child Taxon Of

Source Wikidata: White Clover

In Biome

Source Plants For A Future: Trifolium repens

In the Other Atlases

Found In

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Dominican Republic

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Trifolium repens

Wikipedia

Wikidata Q148675 (P225 taxon name)
Lead section
The species is native to Eurasia and is one of the most widely cultivated types of clover.
lead sentence (diet), EntityId 344456
Trifolium repens, the white clover, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family, Fabaceae (also known as Leguminosae).

View the Source

2. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)View the Source

3. NatureServe Explorer: Trifolium repens

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "GNR"

View the Source

4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Fabales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12426

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12426

"cites_listing":"I/II/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Fabales","family":null},"synonyms":[{"id":39606,"full_name":"Guilandina","author_year":"L.","rank":"GENUS"}],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]

View the Source

5. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Trifolium repens

GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 5358748, category field

Quote, GBIF taxon key 5358748, category field

"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"

View the Source

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

International Union for Conservation of NatureView the Source

Wikidata: White Clover

Child Taxon Of: Trifolium, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source

Plants For A Future: Trifolium repens

Plants For A FutureIn Biome: Grassland, Habitats

Quote, In Biome: Grassland, Habitats

Grassland and lawns, preferring a calcareous clay soil

View the Source

Comments (0)

No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.

Reader Challenges (0)

No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.