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| White Clover - Trifolium repens L. |
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Life cycle: Mat-forming perennial.
Leaves:
Alternate, compound with three stalkless, egg-shaped leaflets. Leaflets are smooth with small teeth along the margins, a slight notch at the tip and usually a whitish V-shaped watermark. Trifoliolate leaves are found on long petioles that arise perpendicular to the prostrate stems.
Stems: Plants spread by prostrate, creeping stolons that root at the nodes and are generally smooth.
Flowers and fruit: White or pinkish white, globe-shaped flower heads occur at the ends of long flower stalks. Each head may contain up to 85 individual flowers. Fruit are small, three- to six-seeded pods.
Reproduction: Seeds and stolons. |
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| White clover flower head. |
White clover stolon. |
Trifoliolate leaf of white clover. |
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| Red clover flower head. |
Trifoliolate of red clover. |
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| Similar weeds: Red clover (T. pratense L.) Differs by having a more robust size and upright growth, red to purple flower heads, and larger, usually hairy trifoliolate leaves. |
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