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Trifolium repens

Perennial

HomePerennialTrifolium repens

Grassland and lawns, preferring a calcareous clay soil.

Family: Fabaceae
Height: 0.1 m / 1 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 4 of 5

Native Habitat

White Clover, Dutch Clover, Purple Dutch Clover, Shamrock, White Clover Trifolium repens native habitat is Grassland and lawns, preferring a calcareous clay soil.

Edible Uses

Leaves - raw or cooked as a potherb. The young leaves are harvested before the plant comes into flower and are used in salads, soups etc. They can also be used as a vegetable, cooked like spinach. The leaves are best cooked. Flowers and seed pods are dried, ground into powder and used as a flour or sprinkled on cooked foods such as boiled rice. Very wholesome and nutritious. The young flowers can also be used in salads. Root - cooked. The dried leaves impart a vanilla flavour to cakes etc. Dried flowering heads are a tea substitute.

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