white clover
Trifolium repens
RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Creeping
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn
- Bloom color
- White
- Foliage color
- Gold/yellow, green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
White clover (Trifolium repens) is a groundcover for pollinator gardens, low maintenance beds, and covering bare ground. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist soil of most types. Rabbits rarely make it their first choice. White flowers appear in spring, summer, and autumn, and they attract butterflies and bees. It creeps quickly, so give it room to spread.
Pairs well with Virginia strawberry, Prairie Sun rudbeckia, and Catnip.
Native range
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, and 20 more places. See all 24
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, Africa, Altay, Azores, Baleares, Buryatiya, Corse, East Aegean Is., Føroyar, Irkutsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Madeira, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, and Türkiye.