We've got you covered! Related: 50 Best St. Patrick's Day Wishes To Toast Your Friends and Family Why Is a Four-Leaf Clover Considered Lucky? Four-leaf clovers are considered lucky for their rarity.

There are approximately 10,000 three-leaf clovers for every “lucky” four-leaf clover. There are no clover plants that naturally produce four leaves, which is why four-leaf clovers are so rare.

Have you ever wondered why four-leaf clovers are linked to St. Patrick's Day, or if there's a difference between four-leaf clovers and shamrocks? Then you'll enjoy these fun four-leaf clover facts.

What we do know is that the four-leaf clover has been a symbol of luck for centuries. Just to name a few examples, it's mentioned in a book from the 1600s, it was carried as soldier's good-luck ...

What’s so lucky about a four-leaf clover? “Well, you’re lucky to find one in the first place,” said Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation President Stephen Prescott, M.D. “The symbolism ...

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The four leaf clover is constantly used as a symbol of St. Patrick's Day and Ireland in general, rather than the actual Irish national symbol of the shamrock.

A few factors turn the standard clover into a four- and sometimes five-leaf plant. White clover is a tiny, white, spiky-looking flower framed with three green leaves.

People have long considered four-leaf clovers to be lucky talismans, so go ahead and speak your hopes and dreams into an oddball flowering legume. “I like anything I can make a wish on,” Hirst ...