CLOVER
(SWEET WHITE)
About Sweet White Clover
These tall gangly looking weeds inhabit extensively throughout our region.
Primary use
food source
Edible parts
Young tender leaves, seeds as a spice, Makes for a slight vanilla flavored tea.
Use Sparingly as can cause vomiting and or liver damage if consumed on a regular basis.
Medicinal
Acts as an anticoagulant. Do not ingest if on any anticoagulant. drug.
Foraging Plant information list
This is not a complete list, this is a list of the species I have directly witnessed in my travels here in Northwest Ontario. If you find something before I do, email me and let me know.
Lambs Quarters
Joe Pye Weed
Cattails
Labrador Tea
Creeping Charlie (Ground Ivy)
Chickweed
Clover (Red)
Clover (White)
Clover (Sweet White)
Fiddleheads
Fireweed
Goldenrod
Bull Thistle
New England Aster
Saskatoon (Service berry)
Blueberry
Pin Cherry
Hazelnuts
Raspberry
Red Currants
Cranberry
Thimble Berry
Cloud Berry
Squashberry (Low bush Cranberry)
Spruce Tips
Birch
Juniper
Willow
Identification
Up to 3m tall with many gangly branches and rows of white flowers don the tips.
Where to look
Along roadsides/disturbed areas, they enjoy sun and a multitude of soil types. Driving bush roads where the roadsides are cut back regularly provide great habitat.
