Trifolium repensL.

white clover

WFO wfo-0000213062 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY In the accuracy benchmark

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Trifolium repens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-06-20 / obs. 31101848
Trifolium repens, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. b WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205386714
Trifolium repens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205521823
Trifolium repens, photographed by Maria
fig. d Maria, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205986886
Trifolium repens, photographed by Jon Mortin
fig. e Jon Mortin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205459562
Trifolium repens, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. f Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205646206
Trifolium repens, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. g Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205647287
Trifolium repens, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. h Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205647265

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 21,913 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 21,913 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 56 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.

  • Amoria biasollettiana C.Presl
  • Amoria repens (L.) C.Presl
  • Amoria repens subsp. orphanidea (Boiss.) Soják
  • Amoria repens subsp. prostrata (Nyman) Soják
  • Trifolium album Lam.
  • Trifolium anomalum Schrank
  • Trifolium biasolettianum Steud. & Hochst. ex W.D.J.Koch
  • Trifolium biasolettii Steud. & Hochst.
  • Trifolium helveticum Scheele
  • Trifolium limonium Phil.
  • Trifolium luxurians Steud.
  • Trifolium macrorrhizum Boiss.
  • Trifolium neglectum Noë ex Nyman
  • Trifolium nevadense Boiss.
  • Trifolium nothum Steven
  • Trifolium orphanideum Boiss.
  • Trifolium pachypodum O.Schwarz
  • Trifolium prostratum Biasol. ex W.D.J.Koch
  • Trifolium repens f. allioideum Dore
  • Trifolium repens f. monstrosum Brenner
  • Trifolium repens f. repens
  • Trifolium repens f. riparia Hauman
  • Trifolium repens f. subvillosum Pau ex Merino
  • Trifolium repens f. truncatum Merino

and 32 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.