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A black cloverleaf on a stem — three lobes, not a weapon.
Also known as: Clubs, Clover on a card, Three circles on a stem
Three circles on a stem. The English name translates the Italian suit of batons, while the shape comes from the German acorn, so like the spade it is a suit whose name and whose form have different ancestors.
One of the four French suits, printed in black.
The shape derives from the acorn of the German suits, redrawn as a trefoil. The English name translates the Italian bastoni, batons — the suit the French set replaced — so the name and the shape come from different traditions, exactly as with the spade.
Called trèfle, clover, in French, which describes the shape accurately and is why the suit is sometimes mistaken for a shamrock or a four-leaf clover. It has three lobes and a stem, never four.
Three lobes. A four-lobed form is a clover, not a club.
Three solid black circles arranged in a triangle, touching, on a short flared stem below the lowest pair.
Both are black suits with a stem, and both descend from plant forms.
A club has three lobes on a stem and so does a shamrock; the club's lobes are circles and its stem is flared.