If you have a lawn, chances are good you have White Clover growing among your grass blades … even though that plant is not supposed to be on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. One of the most common lawn weeds in North America, White Clover is native to Central Asia and Europe, including Great Britain.
But because it is such a good forage crop for livestock, this clover has been introduced across most of the world and is now common in temperate climates in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan, as well as North America. European colonists brought it to North America, where it became known by Native Americans as “white man’s foot-grass” because it seemed to appear wherever colonists settled.
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