Ireland’s national flower – white clover

Republic of Ireland is located in the western Atlantic island of Ireland in Europe, vast meadows and pastures, accounting for about 80% of land area, livestock in the country plays a decisive role in the national economy, the appearance of fine grass Young thriving white clover was high as the country expressed Story not difficult to understand.

White clover is a perennial herb Papilionaceae, leaves often with 3 leaflets, was head-like inflorescence; total peduncle slender; Butterfly-shaped, white or pink. Indeed, compared to many floral, the white clover really seem too common. It has been the national flower of honor, but also because the grass is good forage, but also in the air as free nitrogen-fixing plants can directly use nitrogen compounds, soil improvement.



In fact, there are a number of white clover cultivar, adapted to coexist with other specific types of phase, allowing the soil to accommodate a number of unrelated strains, grouped into different leaf spot, different colors and other multi-state body. More important, such as as “bee diets,” the strain, leaves are sometimes used to open blue dye; cultivation to the viewer, places with a copper red leaf green side of the 4 strains of the most valuable, and worthy of fine flowers.