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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]
What we do know is that the four-leaf clover has been a symbol of luck for centuries. Just to name a few examples, it's mentioned in a book from the 1600s, it was carried as soldier's good-luck ...
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.
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]
The four-leaf clover is a rare variation of the common three-leaf clover that has four leaflets instead of three. According to traditional sayings, such clovers bring good luck , [ 1 ] a belief that dates back to at least the 17th century.
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 ...
The herbicides used at my school seem to make four-leaf clover much more common than normal (Yes, I washed my hands after playing in the pretty field of poisoned clover.), but I have enjoyed searching for and finding four-leaf clover all across the United States and am suspicious that they are as rare as 1 in 10,000 anywhere.