Four-leaved clovers are supposed to be lucky, but the three-leaved varieties are very beautiful, too:
birds-foot trefoil, photo by lawn weeds
There are lots of different plants with trefoil leaves, many of them members of the pea family, so I suppose that if there was no other way to spot a trefoil then you could always plant a pea.
Or look out for a Girl Guide:
one of the symbols of the Girly part of the Scouting Movement
This is another trefoil symbol, but of something even more dangerous than a Girl Guide:
warning sign of a radiation source
There was a fashion for trefoil windows in the 1800s:
drawing by AnonMoos
Actually, now I come to think about it, three is a lucky number, so who needs four leaved clovers?
Let's hope three is lucky for you.
Spot the Frippet: trefoil. This word comes from the French trifoil, from the Latin trifolium, three-leaved herb, from tri, which means three, and folium, leaf.
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