| Scientific Name: | Trifolium repens |
| Common Name: | white clover |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Reclamation, Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Obovate, Orbicular, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Legume, Brown, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low-growing perennial herb with runners 10-60cm long, often rooting at nodes; leaves alternate, trifoliate, most leaflets ovate, 1-2cm long x 0.5-1.5cm wide, usually with a lighter green v-shaped marking half-blade to base, margin serrulate, apex often notched; raceme very compact, head-like or umbel-like, oval-round, 1-2cm wide, white or slightly pinkish, florets tubular, 5-10mm long; legume 4-6mm long with 1 to 4 seeds. | |