Trifolium pannonicumJacq.

Hungarian clover

WFO wfo-0000213992 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Trifolium pannonicum, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. a John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 202872833

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 23546
Filed as
Trifolium pannonicum Jacq.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
Schott, --
Origin
ZZ
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Trifolium pannonicum is native: Morocco, Türkiye, Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Ukraine MoroccoTürkiyeAlbaniaBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Trifolium pannonicum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR
Morocco MOR AFRICA
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 97 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.7 °C -7.9 °C -5.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.2 °C 21.0 °C 24.6 °C
Annual rainfall 581 mm 823 mm 1,390 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 80 mm 119 mm 290 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 97 research-grade observations of Trifolium pannonicum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 16 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 alopecuroides Pers.
  • Trifolium alopecuroides Kit.
  • Trifolium armenium Eichw.
  • Trifolium armenium Willd.
  • Trifolium armenium var. pumilum Clementi
  • Trifolium barbatum DC.
  • Trifolium elongatum Willd.
  • Trifolium nemorosum Gaterau
  • Trifolium ochroleucon var. pannonicum (Jacq.) Trevir.
  • Trifolium olympicum Hornem. ex Hook.
  • Trifolium pannonicum subsp. carpaticum Soó
  • Trifolium pannonicum var. acutifolium Schur
  • Trifolium pannonicum var. davidovii Kožuharov
  • Trifolium pannonicum var. moldavicum A.T.Szabó
  • Trifolium pannonicum var. rubrocalycinum Podp.
  • Trifolium sulphureum K.Koch

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.