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Marsilea quadrifolia is a herbaceous plant found naturally in central and southern Europe, Caucasia, western Siberia, Afghanistan, south-west India, China, Japan, and Vietnam, though it is considered a weed in some parts of the United States, where it has been well established in the northeast for over 100 years. [2]
Common names include water clover and four-leaf clover because of the long-stalked leaves have four clover-like lobes and are either present above water or submerged. It is worth clarifying that these plants are not clovers.
Celtic Football Club, an association football team from Glasgow, Scotland, have used the four leaf clover as the club's official badge for over 40 years. Former Japanese game developer studio Clover Studio used a 4-leaf clover as their logo. Several businesses and organizations use a 4-leaf clover in their logos to signify Celtic origins. [38] [39]
The group is commonly known as the "pepperwort family" or as the "water-clover family" because the leaves of the genus Marsilea superficially resemble the leaves of a four-leaf clover. In all, the family contains three genera and 50 to 80 species with most of those belonging to Marsilea. [1] [2]
Four Leaf Clover Records, a Swedish record company and independent label established by musician, bandleader and producer Lars Samuelson in the early 1970's; Four Leaf Clover, a 2009 album by Four Celtic Voices and Erin Hill; Four Leaf Clover, a 2007 album by Li Yifeng "The Four Leaf Clover", a song by Charles Whitney Coombs (1859–1940)
Other English common names for this plant include Lucky Clover, Four-Leaf Sorrel, Four-Leaf Pink-Sorrel and others. [1] It is sometimes called "the iron cross plant" or "oxalis iron cross" because the leaves loosely resemble the iron cross symbol, though this name is not a classic folk term and has fallen out of favour due to the bad political ...
Cloverleaf or clover leaf may refer to: Plant. The leaf of the clover plant, or its shape; Companies. Clover Leaf Seafoods, Markham, Ontario-based marketer of ...
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