DETROIT (WWJ) - A local flower shop is clearing up a misconception many people may have about Ireland's national flower: A four leaf clover is not a shamrock. Wesley Berry Flowers in Commerce Township ...

So, the shamrock symbol is a typical clover with three leaves. St. Patrick's Day shamrocks are usually green, but clovers can also be purple, green, or white. Shamrocks have been the unofficial ...

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, which means it’s time to celebrate with parades, corned beef and cabbage, green beer and more. Some might even prefer to go on a lengthy search for a leprechaun and its ...

If a leprechaun leaps from the faerie den this St. Patrick’s Day to ask if you know a shamrock from a clover, what will you answer? “If you said the shamrock is a clover, you’re in luck,” says ...

Everybody and their brother — plus Ma and Da — is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. But even everybody and their brother — and Ma and Da, too — occasionally makes the classic St. Patrick’s Day gaffe of ...

St. Patrick's Day conundrum: What exactly is a shamrock? — -- Who knew such a little plant could be so controversial? There's a big disagreement among botanists and scholars of Irish history as ...

Shamrocks and St. Patrick’s Day go hand in hand. You can’t go anywhere on, or leading up to March 17th without seeing this cheerful symbol of Irish lore. Children ...

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Guinness has some explaining to do. The Irish beer giant has apologized for mixing up a shamrock with a four-leaf clover on a subway ad in Toronto ahead of St. Patrick’s Day, reports the Toronto Sun.

(NEXSTAR) – From Las Vegas to New York City, revelers donned costumes with emerald shamrocks and four-leaf clovers to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. And if you thought four-leaf clovers were shamrocks, ...