Editing Trifolium repens (section)

=== Culinary uses ===
Besides making an excellent forage crop for [[livestock]],<ref name="urlTrifolium repens">{{cite web
 | last =Coladonato
 | first =Milo
 | title = ''Trifolium repens''
 | publisher = U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory
 | date =1993
 | url =http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/trirep/all.html
 | access-date = 2015-07-26}}</ref> its leaves and flowers are a valuable survival food: they are high in [[protein]]s, and are widespread and abundant. The fresh plants have been used for centuries as additives to [[salads]] and other meals consisting of leafy vegetables.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} They are not easy for humans to digest raw, but, this is however easily fixed by boiling the harvested plants for 5–10 minutes.<ref name="ewp">Lee Allen Peterson, ''Edible Wild Plants'', (New York City: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977), P. 56.
</ref> Native Americans ate some species raw.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Reiner|first=Ralph E.|title=Introducing the Flowering Beauty of Glacier National Park and the Majestic High Rockies|publisher=Glacier Park, Inc.|year=1969|pages=10}}</ref> Dried white clover flowers may also be smoked as a herbal alternative to tobacco.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/08/clover.html |title=Clover – White |publisher=Foraging Texas |access-date=2018-07-16}}</ref>