Trifolium repens

Its stems creep along the ground and root at the nodes.

The flowers are white, sometimes yellowish or pinkish, clearly stalked, and turn brownish and bend down after flowering.

The leaves have three broad, obovate, hairless leaflets.

Info Flora gives the flowering period of white clover in Switzerland as May to September.

Info Flora lists white clover as indigenous in Switzerland.

White clover grows in meadows, pastures, park lawns, trampled places, along paths and in gardens.

BWARS, which covers Britain, states that the bee Melitta leporina has a marked preference for white clover.

Citing an earlier study from Toronto, Canada, the US authors report that clover was the dominant pollen source in successful brood cells of two generalist bee species.

The Baden-Württemberg bee forage catalogue reports good results from a mix of white and crimson clover sown under cereals in spring.

In suburban lawns in Massachusetts, USA, white clover was by far the most abundant and widespread of 54 spontaneous flowering species.

In the same US study, lawns mown every two weeks had the most bees but the lowest bee species richness and evenness.