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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Fabaceae
Trifolium repens L.
white clover
Trifolium: from tres for three; folium for leaves
repens: having creeping and rooting stems
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized; potentially invasive |
| Plant: | erect or creeping, perennial forb, rooting from the stems |
| Flower: | all white or all pink, 5-parted, 1/4"-3/5" long, calyx 2-lipped; inflorescence a long-stalked, head-like cluster of distinctly stalked flowers; blooms June-Aug. |
| Leaf: | 3-parted with elliptical leaflets, long stalked |
| Habitat: | disturbed sites, lawns |
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