When does Red Clover bloom in Wisconsin?

Most often in July. Across 245 dated, research-grade observations of Trifolium pratense in Wisconsin, the flowering season runs roughly June to October.

Peak July In flower 245 Examined 280 State Wisconsin

Flowering 245 in flower of 280 examined

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Proportion of examined Trifolium pratense in Wisconsin in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	13	0%	0% to 23%
May	30	45	67%	52% to 79%
Jun	106	107	99%	95% to 100%
Jul	36	36	100%	90% to 100%
Aug	21	24	88%	69% to 96%
Sep	29	32	91%	76% to 97%
Oct	19	19	100%	83% to 100%
Nov	3	3	too few examined
Dec	1	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Trifolium pratense in Wisconsin 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. 245 of 280 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 Wisconsin found Trifolium pratense in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Wisconsin, 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 Wisconsin. 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.