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White Clover
White Clover
Trifolium repens
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Europe and Central Asia
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Runners
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

A low-creeping perennial legume with three-leaflet leaves and round white flower heads. Each tiny floret is packed with nectar that bumblebees crawl over to drink, and the plant fixes its own nitrogen by hosting bacteria in root nodules.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Trifolium
Species
Trifolium repens