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Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

23,504Records since 2000
JunePeak month
126Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan88
Feb42
Mar71
Apr859
May3,608
Jun5,119
Jul4,356
Aug3,249
Sep1,982
Oct908
Nov354
Dec74

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,242
2Oxfordshire England524
3Herefordshire, County of England516
4Argyll and Bute Scotland510
5North Yorkshire England502
6Sefton England501
7Essex England483
8Highland Scotland398
9Cumbria England342
10Devon England308
11Sheffield England291
12Powys Wales290
13Gloucestershire England271
14Norfolk England262
15Dorset England255
18,674 England2,504 Scotland1,094 Wales181 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
23,504
Peak month
June
Counties with records
126
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Trifolium pratense
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
73,279
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Trifolium
Name with authority
Trifolium pratense L.
Contributing datasets
63

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q156635 · GBIF 8324121