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Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Trifolium repens |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Family common name(s) | legume; legumes; leguminosae; pea; bean; clover; pulse; pulses |
| Genus common name(s) | clover; true clover; claver; clower; true trefoil |
| Species common name(s) | common white clover; white Dutch clover; Dutch white clover; ladino white clover; white ladino clover; ladino clover; ladino clower; white lawn clover; white honey-suckle clover; white honeysuckle clover; white shamrock; white shamrock clover; cyanide clover; white trefoil; lamb-sucklings; lamb sucklings; lamb's sucklings; sheep's-gowan; sheep's gowan |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | wild clover, common clover, Dutch clover, honeysuckle clover, honeysuckle-clover, honey-suckle clover, purplewort, purple-wort, purple wort are applied to multiple Trifolium taxa; white clover, shamrock clover, seamrog are applied to multiple Trifolium taxa; trefoil, triphyllon are applied to multiple Fabaceae taxa; pink clover, pink-clover, sheep's clover, shamrock, true shamrock, purple-grass, purple grass, purplegrass, white man's foot steps, white man's footsteps, white-man's foot, white man's foot, white-man's-foot, whiteman's foot, Englishman's foot are applied to taxa in multiple families; honeysuckle is more commonly applied to Lonicera |
| Notes | Dutch is a proper name, so upper case preferable |
