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[JRobbFarm@aol.com]

I'm kinda coming in on the tail end of this thread but it sounds to me like 
what you have is hop clover.  The plant looks like a miniature of  common 
clover.
The Audubon Field guide to Wild Flowers has a good picture of it.  Ive got 
scads of it in my lawn,  I just mow it with the rest of my weeds.
Jeff
Ohio River Valley
Zone 6