When does Red Clover bloom in Pennsylvania?

Most often in July. Across 343 dated, research-grade observations of Trifolium pratense in Pennsylvania, the flowering season runs roughly May to October.

Peak July In flower 343 Examined 387 State Pennsylvania

Flowering 343 in flower of 387 examined

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Proportion of examined Trifolium pratense in Pennsylvania in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	1	too few examined
Feb	0	1	too few examined
Mar	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Apr	0	8	0%	0% to 32%
May	83	94	88%	80% to 93%
Jun	99	103	96%	90% to 98%
Jul	38	38	100%	91% to 100%
Aug	29	30	97%	83% to 99%
Sep	56	61	92%	82% to 96%
Oct	32	34	94%	81% to 98%
Nov	6	8	75%	41% to 93%
Dec	0	4	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Trifolium pratense in Pennsylvania observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 343 of 387 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Pennsylvania found Trifolium pratense in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Pennsylvania, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Trifolium pratense

Red Clover

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Pennsylvania. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.