***NY-Introduced***

    This common plant of lawns, roadsides, and waste areas is not native, but introduced from Eurasia.  All Clovers are members of the pea family, having many small flowers in one head.  White Clover grows low and trailing and thus the flowers often survive when passed by a lawn mower.  It is one of the favorite flowers of Honeybees and beekeepers for its sweet nectar which produces a delicious honey.  The leaves are palmately compound and there are usually three leaflets but sometimes leaves are found with four.  The lucky "four-leaved clover" is not at all uncommon and some leaves even have five or more leaflets.  Flowers throughout the warmer months.