Clover

Common Name : Clover

Botanical Name : Trifolium sp. (Clover)

The scientific name derives from the Latin tres, "three", and folium, "leaf", so called from the characteristic form of the leaf, which has three  Leaflets (trifoliate); hence the popular name   Trefoil    Clovers are used as food plants by the  larvae of some  Lepodopter (butterfly andmoth ) species; see  lost of Lopidoptera that feed on clover.

Clover (Trifolium),  or trefoil,  genuus is a of about 300  specjies of  Plants in the leguminous  pea family Fabacese. The genus has a  cosmopolitan distribution the highest diversity is found in the temperate Northerh Hemisphere, but many species also occur in  South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics. They are small  annual viennial or short-lived  perennial herbaceous  plants. The leaves are trifoliate (rarely 5- or 7-foliate), with stipules adnate  to the leaf-stalk, and heads or dense spikes of small red, purple, white, or yellow flowers; the small, few-seeded pods are enclosed in the calucx. Other closely related genera often called clovers include  Melillotis (sweet clover) and  Medicago ( algalfa or 'calvary clover'). The   of popular iconography is sometimes considered to be young clover.