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From a distance clover heads look like white puff-balls in the grass. If you look at them closely, you will see that each globular head is made up of many small pea-shaped flowers each on its own little stalk. The flowers are white to start with and then develop a pink tinge. These are fragrant and beloved of honey bees. The stem creeps along the ground and roots at the joints. The three leaflets which make up one leaf are heartshaped with the pointed end facing inwards. The leaflets are marked with whitish bands which resemble quarter moons. As a rule there are always three leaflets but, occasionally four- leaved clovers appear and are supposed to be lucky if worn on your lapel or even the brim of your hat! The name clover may have orignat-ed from the Latin, clava or clubs, because of the fancied resemblance between the three-pronged club of Hercules and the clover leaf. The clubs of playing cards and the trefle [trefoil] of the French are based on this leaf. Clover grows in meadows, pastures, lawns and sports fields all over the northern hills and in the Nilgiris. It is a hardy plant which can stand up to trampling and prefers a nitrogenous soil. A red-purple variety is found as well, this is T. pratense, and is a valued fodder plant.Clover flowers from April to August. The famous Irish shamrock, a type of a clover [T.minus], has been introduced in the hills in India. In Hindi clover is known as Shaftal and the pink variety called Trepatra. Clover grows throughout the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere. It helps to improve the quality of the soil through the friendly bacteria that live in its roots and thereby help in absorbing nitrogen from the atmosphere, and convert it to usable plant nutrients.