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§1 Plant
Trifolium reflexum L.
vernacular buffalo clover — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Trifolium
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 286 counties across 24 states/territories§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 286 counties across 24 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Cross 05037
- Drew 05043
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Hot Spring 05059
- Independence 05063
- Jefferson 05069
- Lawrence 05075
- Lonoke 05085
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Newton 05101
- Pike 05109
- Polk 05113
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Searcy 05129
- Sebastian 05131
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Claiborne 22027
- Evangeline 22039
- Jackson 22049
- Lafayette 22055
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Sabine 22085
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- Union 22111
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 61 N ▾
- Adair 29001
- Atchison 29005
- Audrain 29007
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Benton 29015
- Bollinger 29017
- Boone 29019
- Callaway 29027
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Carroll 29033
- Carter 29035
- Cass 29037
- Clark 29045
- Clay 29047
- Cole 29051
- Cooper 29053
- Crawford 29055
- Dade 29057
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Franklin 29071
- Greene 29077
- Henry 29083
- Howell 29091
- Iron 29093
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Johnson 29101
- Knox 29103
- Laclede 29105
- Lincoln 29113
- Linn 29115
- Livingston 29117
- Madison 29123
- Maries 29125
- Moniteau 29135
- Monroe 29137
- Montgomery 29139
- Morgan 29141
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Ozark 29153
- Phelps 29161
- Putnam 29171
- Ripley 29181
- Scotland 29199
- Shannon 29203
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Francois 29187
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Vernon 29217
- Warren 29219
- Washington 29221
- Wayne 29223
- Webster 29225
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRRE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5359007 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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