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§1 Plant

Trifolium carolinianum Michx.

vernacular Carolina clover — species · Fabaceae


USDA
TRCA6
GBIF
5359241
Rank
species
Carolina clover (Trifolium carolinianum)
Platephotograph · Kathy CoxCC BY-NC-ND source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 109 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 109 Introduced · 0 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 109 counties across 13 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 16 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 18 N
Georgia view state ↗ 21 N
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N
Missouri view state ↗ 4 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 13 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/TRCA6 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5359241 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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