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A clover with four leaflets instead of three, taken as a sign of luck.
Also known as: Lucky clover, Four leaf shamrock
A genuine but uncommon mutation of white clover. Its association with luck is long-standing folk tradition with no single documented origin, and the rarity — roughly one in several thousand — is what the tradition rests on.
Taken as a token of good luck across Ireland, Britain and much of the English-speaking world.
A real and uncommon variation of white clover, which normally bears three leaflets. Estimates of its frequency vary widely, but it is rare enough that finding one is unusual.
Meanings are sometimes assigned to the individual leaves — faith, hope, love and luck — but the attribution is folk tradition with no single documented origin and no authority behind it.
Recorded as a tradition that circulates, not as an established meaning. No source establishes who first assigned the leaves these meanings.
Four rounded heart-shaped leaflets radiating from a single central point at the top of a short stem.
The shamrock has three leaflets and is a national emblem of Ireland; the four-leaf clover is a rare mutation and a luck token. They are constantly interchanged in decoration, and only one of them is Irish symbolism.