| No | 29 |
| Common Name: | White clover |
| Scientific Name: | Trifolium repens |
| Irish Name: | Seamair bhán |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Habitat: | Grassland, meadows (legumes) |
| Uses: | Fixes nitrogen in the soil. Grown in meadows for fodder. Caleb Threlkeld (1676-1728) wrote “This Plant is worn by the People in their Hats upon the Seventeenth day of March yearly (which is called St Patrick’s Day), it being a current tradition that by this Three leafed Grass he emblematically set forth to them the Mystery of the Holy Trinity. However that be, when they wet their Seamar-oge, they often commit Excess in Liquor, which is not a right keeping of a Day to the Lord.” |
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