The word "shamrock" comes from the Irish seamrog, which is the diminutive form for the Irish word for clover, and translates roughly to "young clover." Clover is a grass-like plant, and bees ...

“In the 18th century, the cult of St. Patrick associated the three-leaf shamrock (which is a clover) with a legend that he used to teach the Catholic doctrine of the Holy Trinity ...

Crimson Clover (Trifolium incarnatum) is a gorgeous, tall-growing clover species which would look good in any flowering border ... or trefoil (shamrock) leaf to demonstrate the doctrine of ...

If a leprechaun leaps from the faerie den this St. Patrick’s Day to ask if you know a shamrock from a clover, what will you answer? “If you said the shamrock is a clover, you’re in luck ...

(NEXSTAR) – From Las Vegas to New York City, revelers donned costumes with emerald shamrocks and four-leaf clovers to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. And if you thought four-leaf clovers were ...

The three-leaf clover, a type of trefoil plant, has been considered the unofficial national flower of Ireland for centuries. Irish legend says that Saint Patrick used the shamrock as an ...

While it’s cute that the plant resembles the three-leafed clover, I adore the false shamrock for another reason: They wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night. Through a process called ...

The Alfa shamrock doesn't have anything to do with Ireland, but it has everything to do with luck. The Quadrifoglio — the Italian name for a four-leaf clover, and further proof that almost any ...

What is a true “Shamrock”? The true Irish Shamrock (Seamog in Gaelic, summer plant) is Trifolium repens, commonly known as white clover. This tri-leafed plant grows wild throughout Ireland ...