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§1 Plant

Trifolium aureum Pollich

vernacular golden clover — species · Fabaceae


USDA
TRAU2
GBIF
5359060
Rank
species
golden clover (Trifolium aureum)
Platephotograph · sabina88CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Trifolium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 469 counties across 24 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 469 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 469 counties across 24 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 6 I
Indiana view state ↗ 14 I
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I
Maine view state ↗ 15 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I
Michigan view state ↗ 42 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 14 I
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I
Montana view state ↗ 15 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 I
New York view state ↗ 43 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 18 I
Ohio view state ↗ 45 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 67 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 I
Vermont view state ↗ 14 I
Virginia view state ↗ 44 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 31 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 38 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/TRAU2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5359060 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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