Trifolium bifidum (notchleaf clover)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Trifolium bifidum, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda — fig. a Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-23 / obs. 190235778

Trifolium bifidum, photographed by P Holroyd — fig. c P Holroyd, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67689235

Trifolium bifidum, photographed by Andy Kleinhesselink — fig. e Andy Kleinhesselink, CC0 1.0 / obs. 16518389

Trifolium bifidum, photographed by Don Loarie — fig. f Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15072882

Trifolium bifidum, photographed by Chuck Wilson — fig. g Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193435491

Trifolium bifidum, photographed by Adam J. Searcy — fig. h Adam J. Searcy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185950700

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Trifolium bifidum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
British Columbia	BRC	NORTHERN AMERICA
California	CAL
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Oregon	ORE
Washington	WAS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 587 in flower of 647 examined

67%

76%

94%

93%

71%

Proportion of examined Trifolium bifidum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	2	too few examined
Feb	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Mar	64	84	76%	66% to 84%
Apr	462	491	94%	92% to 96%
May	52	56	93%	83% to 97%
Jun	5	7	71%	36% to 92%
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Trifolium bifidum 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. 587 of 647 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 4 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 bifidum var. bifidum
Trifolium bifidum var. decipiens Greene
Trifolium greenei House
Trifolium hallii Howell

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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