Trifolium arvenseL.

rabbitfoot clover

WFO wfo-0000212967 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Trifolium arvense, photographed by Aimee Lusty
fig. a Aimee Lusty, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-26 / obs. 205491162
Trifolium arvense, photographed by geosesarma
fig. b geosesarma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205594987
Trifolium arvense, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202653257
Trifolium arvense, photographed by stephen
fig. d stephen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202813204
Trifolium arvense, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. e Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199028246
Trifolium arvense, photographed by szegedigombasz
fig. f szegedigombasz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198343115
Trifolium arvense, photographed by Alice Shanks
fig. g Alice Shanks, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195549629
Trifolium arvense, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. h Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195871445

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Flowering n = 2,632 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 2,632 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 67 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Trifolium agrestinum Jord. ex Boreau
  • Trifolium agrestinum subsp. lagopinum (Jord.) P.Fourn.
  • Trifolium agrestinum subsp. littorale (Jord. ex Boreau) P.Fourn.
  • Trifolium arenivagum Jord. ex Boreau
  • Trifolium arvense f. komlodiae Soó
  • Trifolium arvense f. pulchellum (Lange) C.Vicioso
  • Trifolium arvense prol. agrestinum (Boreau) Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense prol. brittingeri (Weitenweb. ex Opiz) Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense prol. gracile (Thuill.) Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense prol. longisetosum (Boiss. & Balansa) Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. agrestinum (Jord. ex Boreau) Berher
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. agrestinum (Jord. ex Boreau) Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. brittingeri (Weitenweb. ex Opiz) Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. gracile (Thuill.) Teles
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. gracile (Thuill.) Nyman
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. longisetosum (Boiss. & Balansa) Braun-Blanq.
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. longisetum (Boiss. & Balansa) Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense subsp. preslianum (Boiss.) Gibelli & Belli
  • Trifolium arvense var. aetnense Guss.
  • Trifolium arvense var. agrestinum (Jord. ex Boreau) Corb.
  • Trifolium arvense var. alopecuroides Rouy
  • Trifolium arvense var. angustifolium Lej.
  • Trifolium arvense var. arenivagum (Jord. ex Boreau) Corb.
  • Trifolium arvense var. arvense

and 43 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.