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"I like it underground all right. The closed space is really very much like a hutch, except that it's darker. The difficult thing for us is going to be feeding in the open. We're not used to being free to go where we like and we don't know what to do. You all act so quickly and half the time I don't know why. I'd prefer not to feed very far from the hole, if you don't mind."

Clover is one of the hutch rabbits from Nuthanger Farm, a strong and active doe that joins Watership Down Warren.

In the book, she becomes mates with Holly. In the television series, she instead becomes Hawkbit's mate near the end of season three. In the miniseries, she becomes Hazel's mate as one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Fiver).

Novels[]

Watership Down[]

In the book, Clover (along with Laurel) is described as short-haired black Angoras. She and two other hutch rabbits escape from the farm with Hazel, Pipkin, and Blackberry to Watership Down. Eventually, she becomes mates with Holly and provides the Watership Down warren with its first litter, three does and three bucks, one of which was named Scabious.

Tales from Watership Down[]

She appears briefly alongside her son but doesn't speak at any time during this scene.

Film[]

In the film, Clover is a mostly white rabbit, with a bright white underbelly and red eyes. Along with the rest of the hutch rabbits, Clover is recaptured after being let out by Hazel and his friends, resulting in them never being seen again.

TV series[]

Season 1[]

Hutch rabbits

Hazel finds Clover in the hutch.

In the TV series, only Clover wants to leave the farm but is somewhat reluctant. She leaves with Fiver and Pipkin but only returns to the warren with Pipkin when the farmer shoots Hazel.

When Pipkin is annoyed by being the smallest of the rabbits, Clover comforts him by petting him like an animal and saying he will be big one day.

Season 2[]

She appears only three times in season two in only one episode, The Homecoming. She is seen with several kittens after Campion arrives on Watership Down for the first time, but it is unknown if they are hers or who the father is. One of them says "mother," implying these are her kittens. She is later seen close to Blackavar in the warren, implying that he may be her mate (which is proven false at the end of season three when she mates with Hawkbit).

She is last seen helping dig the rock loose to kill General Woundwort with Blackberry, Hawkbit, and several other does.

Season 3[]

In season three, Clover becomes a main character and the love interest of Hawkbit. She is seen in the warren after Woundwort's defeat sleeping with Hawkbit and running with him until they are interrupted by a former Efrafan slave, and she asks him if he wants to nibble dandelion leaves with her. But he turns her down, runs off to bite Dandelion's tail, and steals his doe, Heather.

She and Blackberry come across a fresh footprint of Campion (who they think is dead), and Clover tells her that it can't be a fresh footprint, something Pipkin agrees with, but only to cover up the truth that Campion is truly alive, but doesn't want anyone to know that.

In The Beginning of the End, she is seen carrying flayrah into the warren with Silverweed and Yona, and teasing Hawkbit, who asks her if she wants to be his mate, about a group of voles following him, while rolling a rock to the battle field and helping with setting up the boulders for the boulder-rollers.

Clover and Hawkbit in season 3

"Hello Clover! What are you doing after the war then?"
"Whatever you're doing, handsome!"
-Hawkbit and Clover, The Magic

At the end of this episode, she finally settles down and (implied) mates with Hawkbit, both of whom think that the next day will be the last day they are alive.

In the final episode of the series, she is seen with Hawkbit, who asks her what she is going to be doing after the war and she calls him "handsome"; implying that they are indeed a couple now.

Miniseries[]

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Clover in the miniseries of Watership Down

Clover appears in the miniseries. She serves as Hazel's love interest and eventual mate.

In this adaptation, Clover and Haystack are the only hutch rabbits to escape and make it to Watership Down. After Mr. Cane shoots Hazel, Clover looks for him and successfully finds him in a ditch. She then hears Bigwig calling out for her and goes to meet him, only to be captured by the Wide Patrol and taken to Efrafa, where she meets Hyzenthlay, who is at first distrustful of her and believes her to be a spy.

Clover is later summoned to General Woundwort, who attempts to seduce her into becoming his "queen." When Hyzenthlay is ordered to be executed, Clover tries to make a deal with Woundwort by saying that she will be his queen if he spares Hyzenthlay's life. However, Woundwort refuses, stating that he doesn't make deals.

After Bigwig infiltrates Efrafa, Clover, Hyzenthlay, Blackavar, and several other rabbits escape with him and go to Watership Down.

Clover later takes part in the battle between the Watership Down rabbits and the Efrafans and confesses her love for Hazel.

Trivia[]

Clover 3D model 3

Clover's scrapped design in the Miniseries.

  • Although Clover is mentioned as a black Angora doe in the novel, she's not depicted as one in the other adaptations.
  • In the Miniseries, Clover was originally designed to have her have white or gray fur like in the animated feature to set her apart more from the wild ones but in the end she and the other hutch rabbits only got cleaner fur grooms than the wild ones while staying similar colors. This idea was scrapped and she was given a calico pelt in the end.

Etymology[]

  • The name "Clover" comes from the plant. A clover is a pea family herbaceous plant with dense, rounded flower heads and green leaves that are typically three-lobed. They bloom magenta flowers.

Gallery[]

Rabbits
Cross-media
Sandleford Warren
BigwigBlackberryBluebellCaptain HollyDandelionFiverHawkbitHazelPipkinPimpernelSilverThrearahToadflax

Nuthanger Farm
BoxwoodCloverHaystackLaurel
Cowslip's Warren
CowslipKingcupLaburnumSilverweedStrawberry
Efrafa
BlackavarCaptain CampionCaptain ChervilCaptain OrchisGeneral WoundwortHyzenthlayRagwortSainfoinThethuthinnangThistleVervainVilthuril
Folklore
Black Rabbit of InléEl-ahrairahHufsaRabscuttle

Books only
Introduced in Watership Down
AcornAshAvensBartsiaBetonyBuckthornButterburCaptain BuglossCaptain MallowCharlockColtsfootFlescaGroundselMarjoramMoneywortNelthiltaNightshadeNildro-hainNose-in-the-AirPine NeedlesScabiousSnowdropSpeedwellThrayonlosaThrearThunder

Introduced in Tales from Watership Down
BurdockCelandineCrowfootCrowlaFescueFlyairthFoxgloveHeartseaseKing Fur-RociousKnapweedLemistaLoosestrifeMelsaMianMilmownNyreemPeertonPrakeQuiensRithlaSandwortStitchwortStonecropThrennionTindraWoodruff

AspenBlueskyButtercupCaptain BroomFelsparFlaxGentianGiliaGorseGraniteHeatherHickoryLarchMallowMarigoldMossPrimroseRaincloudRedShaleSnowdropSpartinaSpeaker of the Past
Film/Miniseries only
Dewdrop (Miniseries) • Nettle (Miniseries) • Violet (film)
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