How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover

Looking for a Lucky Clover on St. Patrick’s Day or Any Day

Mar 6, 2009 Tamiko Nicholson

If you have always wanted to find a four-leaf clover, this could be your lucky day! Here you will find helpful information to aid you in your search.

Finding a four-leaf clover does involve some luck, but these tips can improve your chances.

Practice Looking at Pennies and Clovers on the Ground

It might seem like an enormous task to find a four-leaf clover in a great field of grass and clover, but it can be done. Part of the task is training the eye to look for small things on the ground on a regular basis. When you are going for a walk, constantly scan the area around your feet where you are walking.

If you are on the sidewalks in the city you can practice by looking for pennies. If you are in a park, casually glance at clovers where you see them and count how many leaves a few of them have. This way, when you actively go to search for a four-leaf clover your eyes have had some practice looking at the ground for tiny details.

Where and When Best to Find Four-Leaf Clovers

Anywhere where clovers grow in abundance is a good place to start. Try the backyard, school fields, parks or farmland. The best time to find four-leaf clovers is in the summer when they are growing the most, but they can still be found in spring and fall – and even winter depending on the location. St. Patrick's Day is always a fun day to look for four-leaf clovers and it can be part of a day of outdoor St. Paddy's activities with the kids.

It may take a long time to find a four-leaf clover. Sometimes a lucky clover can be found in minutes but it often takes hours, days or even months. There is an upside though, once you find one then the chances of finding another are greatly improved. Usually four-leaf clovers grow in patches, so look closely at its neighbours. It can be that a four-leaf clover may be the one and only strange anomaly in the patch. Other times, a patch might even be hiding a five-leaf clover, a six-leaf clover or a rare seven-leaf clover.

Four-Leaf Clovers Tend to Grow in Patches

If you pick all the four-leaf clovers from a patch, you can always revisit the patch and collect some more. Usually, if the patch had a lot of four-leaf clovers then more will grow again. If you found your special patch in a field full of clover, it can be hard to retrace your steps a week later.

It is a good idea to have a marker to help you out, like remembering how far away the patch is from the water fountain. Or you can even place a marker like a stone by it or dig a hole nearby to help you find it again. Another idea is to do up a “pirate map” by figuring out how many steps from a certain tree or fence the patch was and in what direction.

Bring a Book to Carry the Four-Leaf Clovers

It’s a good idea to bring a book when going on a four-leaf clover hunt. That way you can immediately flatten your clover into the book, instead of holding a wilting clover in your hand all the way home. If you forgot a book and your clover is worse for wear when you get home, you can always put it in a little bowl of water to revive it.

Remember the trick to finding a clover is to practice looking for small things on the ground, find places where clovers grow and once you find a four-leaf clover see if there are more in the patch.

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Mar 10, 2009 6:06 PM

Guest :

Were i live there is just a few patches of clovers some in the front yard and back. I have been looking in those patches for years but no four leaf clovers grow, im good at spotting little things on the ground thats easy for me, but when i look for four leaf clovers i just dont see any. The patches of clovers that grow, the cloversa in the patches grow to be huge!!!!! i search for clovers and just can't find any. do you have any suggestions on were else i should try to look?
Erin, GA age 10

Mar 13, 2009 1:38 AM

Tamiko Nicholson :

Hi Erin,
Have you tried looking for four-leaf clovers in your neighborhood park or on your school grounds? I started looking for four-leaf clovers when I was in elementary school and I would spend recess looking for them on the school field and anywhere where there were clovers growing on the school property. I would find a four-leaf clover and then maybe not see another one for a whole year (or so it seemed)! As time went by, I was able to find more and more four-leaf clovers - faster and more often. Today I can spot a four-leaf clover just walking to work and glancing over at clovers growing in the grass beside the sidewalk. It's not because I am lucky, but because I have spent years and years looking for them. It sounds like you have a good eye for detail, you just might want to branch out to other 'greener pastures' to help you in your search. The four-leaf clovers are out there! :)

Mar 17, 2009 5:45 AM

Guest :

i find 5 leaf and four leafs all the time i think even a six

Mar 28, 2009 2:27 PM

Guest :

i found 4 four leaf clovers and one 5 leaf clover in the same patch on the same day.

May 23, 2009 7:37 AM

Guest :

Thank You!

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