When does white clover bloom in California?

Most often in July. Across 3,544 dated, research-grade observations of Trifolium repens in California, the flowering season runs roughly March to September.

Peak July In flower 3,544 Examined 4,191 State California

Flowering 3,544 in flower of 4,191 examined

56%

64%

79%

91%

92%

96%

92%

80%

66%

72%

67%

Proportion of examined Trifolium repens in California in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	92	165	56%	48% to 63%
Feb	197	309	64%	58% to 69%
Mar	589	747	79%	76% to 82%
Apr	1448	1595	91%	89% to 92%
May	510	552	92%	90% to 94%
Jun	263	273	96%	93% to 98%
Jul	108	112	96%	91% to 99%
Aug	84	91	92%	85% to 96%
Sep	108	135	80%	72% to 86%
Oct	58	88	66%	56% to 75%
Nov	55	76	72%	61% to 81%
Dec	32	48	67%	53% to 78%

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Trifolium repens in California 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. 3,544 of 4,191 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 California found Trifolium repens in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in California, 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 repens

white clover

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in California. 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.