Running Glade Clover
Trifolium calcaricum
Found in limestone glades, woodlands, and barrens. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Northern Tier edition What its natural habitat tells you
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Keystone
Native to Virginia. How scores work Is it native here?
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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source
Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.
At a glance
- Life cycle
- Perennial
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Leaves · Bloom
This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.
Recorded in 1 Virginia county.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
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Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.
Ecological relationships
Who uses this plant?
116CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including VA
Genus host records with ranges including VA · Trifolium
- Abaeis nicippeSleepy Orange, Sleepy Yellow, Erratic Orange
- Achyra rantalisGarden Webworm Moth
- Acrolophus arcanellaGrass Tubeworm Moth
- Acrolophus moraDark Grass-Tubeworm
- Acrolophus plumifrontellaEastern Grass Tubeworm
- Acrolophus popeanellaClemen's Grass Tubeworm
- Acronicta oblinitaSmeared Dagger
- Agnorisma badinodisPale-Banded Dart
- Agrotis gladiariaSwordsman Dart, Clay-Backed Cut-Worm
- Agrotis ipsilonIpsilon Dart, Black Cutworm, Greasy Cutworm
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- Agrotis venerabilisVenerable Dart, Dusky Cut-Worm
- Agrotis volubilisVoluble Dart
- Anagrapha falciferaCelery Looper Moth
- Anarta trifoliiThe Nutmeg, Clover Cutworm
- Anavitrinella pampinariaCommon Gray, Cranberry Spanworm
- Ancylis discigeranaYellow Birch Leaffolder Moth
- Ancylis metamelanaBlack-Marked Ancylis, ?Clover Leaf Tier
- Anicla infectaGreen Cutworm Moth
- Anticarsia gemmatalisVelvetbean Caterpillar Moth
- Apantesis naisNais Tiger Moth
- Apantesis phalerataHarnessed Moth
- Apantesis phylliraPhyllira Tiger Moth
- Aristotelia roseosuffusellaPink-Washed Aristotelia
- Autographa precationisCommon Looper Moth
- Automeris ioIo Moth
- Bleptina caradrinalisBent-Winged Owlet, Variable Snout
- Caenurgina crassiusculaForage Looper Moth, Clover Looper, Range Grass Moth
- Caenurgina erechteaClover Looper Moth, Common Grass Moth, Forage Looper
- Cecropterus bathyllusSouthern Cloudywing
- Cecropterus pyladesNorthern Cloudywing
- Celypha nr.Celypha Moth
- Choephora fungorumBent-Line Dart
- Choristoneura rosaceanaOblique-Banded Leafroller Moth, Rosaceous Leaf Roller
- Clepsis persicanaWhite Triangle Tortrix
- Coelostathma discopunctanaThe Batman Moth
- Colias eurythemeOrange Sulphur, Alfalfa Butterfly
- Colias philodiceClouded Sulphur, Clover Butterfly
- Cupido comyntasEastern Tailed-Blue
- Dargida diffusaWheat Head Armywotm Moth
- Dasylophia anguinaBlack-Spotted Prominent
- Ectropis crepusculariaThe Small Engrailed, Saddleback Looper
- Elaphria grataGrateful Midget
- Erastria colorariaBroad-Lined Erastria
- Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
- Euclidia cuspideaToothed Somberwing
- Eusarca confusariaConfused Eusarca
- Euxoa messoriaReaper Dart, Darksided Cutworm, Dark-Sided Cutworm
- Euxoa tessellataTessellate Dart, Striped Cutworm
- Feltia jaculiferaDingy Cutworm
- Feltia manifestaAdobe Dart, Obvious
- Feltia subgothicaSubgothic Dart
- Feltia subterraneaSubterranean Dart, Granulate Cutworm
- Grapholita interstinctanaClover Seed Caterpillar
- Haematopis gratariaChickweed Geometer
- Helicoverpa zeaCorn Earworm Moth
- Hemeroplanis scopulepesVariable Tropic
- Herpetogramma pertextalisBold-Feathered Grass Moth
- Hydraecia immanisHop Borer, Hop Vine Borer
- Hypena scabraGreen Cloverworm Bomolocha, Black Snout
- Hyphantria cuneaFall Webworm
- Hyppa xylinoidesCommon Hyppa
- Idaea furciferataNotch-Winged Wave
- Idaea obfusariaRippled Wave
- Iridopsis humariaSmall Purplish Gray
- Iridopsis larvariaBent-Line Gray
- Lacinipolia explicataExplicit Groundcat, Explicit Arches
- Lacinipolia loreaBridled Arches, Bridle Groundcat
- Lacinipolia meditataThe Thinker
- Lacinipolia olivaceaOlive Arches, Olive Groundcat
- Lacinipolia renigeraBristly Ground Cat, Bristly Cutworm Moth, Kidney Spotted "Mamestra"
- Lacinipolia vicinaAllied Mamestra, Neighborly Arches
- Lobocleta ossulariaDrab Brown Wave
- Macrochilo litophoraAngulate Fan-Foot, Brown-Lined Owlet
- Megalographa bilobaBilobed Looper Moth
- Melanchra adjunctaHitched Arches
- Melanchra pictaPainted Arches, Zebra Caterpillar Moth
- Mythimna unipunctaArmyworm Moth, White Speck
- Nephelodes miniansBronzed Cutworm
- Nomophila nearcticaLucerne Moth, American Celery Webworm
- Ochropleura implectaAmerican Flame-Shouldered Dart
- Orgyia leucostigmaWhite-Marked Tussock Moth
- Pandemis limitataThree-Lined Leafroller Moth
- Papaipema nebrisStalk Borer
- Phalaenostola larentioidesBlack-Banded Owlet, Black-Banded Phalaenostola
- Phoebis sennaeCloudless Sulphur
- Platynota flavedanaBlack-Shaded Platynota
- Platynota idaeusalisTufted Apple-Bud Moth
- Platynota stultanaOmnivorous Leafroller
- Protolampra brunneicollisBrown-Collared Dart
- Pyrisitia lisaLittle Yellow, Little Sulphur, Lisa Yellow
- Pyrrharctia isabellaIsabella Tiger Moth, Banded Woolybear
- Rachiplusia ouGray Looper
- Renia factiosalisSociable Renia, Undulate Renia, Dark-Banded Renia
- Schinia jaguarinaJaguar Flower Moth
- Scopula inductataSoft-Lined Wave
- Scopula limboundataLarge Lace-Border
- Spaelotis clandestinaClandestine Dart, W-Marked Cutworm
- Sparganothis sulfureanaSparganothis Fruitworm Moth, Sulfur Leafroller, False Yellow-Head
- Sparganothis unifascianaOne-Lined Sparganothis
- Spilosoma virginicaVirginian Tiger Moth, Yellow Woolybear Moth, Yellow Bear
- Spodoptera dolichosSweetpotato Armyworm, Dolichos Armyworm, Large Cotton Armyworm
- Spodoptera eridaniaSouthern Armyworm Moth
- Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
- Strymon melinusGray Hairstreak
- Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
- Trichoplusia niNi Moth, Cabbage Looper Moth
- Trichopolia oviducaRuddy Quaker
- Trichordestra legitimaStriped Garden Caterpillar Moth
- Udea rubigalisCelery Leaftier
- Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
- Xanthorhoe ferrugataRed Twin-Spot, Twin-Spot Carpet
- Xestia c-nigrumSpotted Cut-Worm, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Lesser Black-letter Dart
- Xestia dolosaGreater Black-Letter Dart, Greater Spotted Cutworm
- Zeiraphera claypoleanaBuckeye Petiole Borer
- Aproaerema palpilineella
- Xenotemna pallorana
36BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Trifolium
Individual names are not available yet.
Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
2Specialist beesPollen specialists
Pollen specialists · Trifolium
- Calliopsis micheneri
- Megachile melanophaea
24BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim
Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Trifolium
- Ammospiza leconteiiLeConte's Sparrow
- Anser caerulescensSnow Goose
- Anthus rubescensAmerican Pipit
- Bonasa umbellusRuffed Grouse
- Branta canadensisCanada Goose
- Calcarius pictusSmith's Longspur
- Callipepla californicaCalifornia Quail
- Centrocercus urophasianusGreater Sage-Grouse
- Dendragapus obscurusDusky Grouse
- Falcipennis canadensisSpruce Grouse
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- Junco hyemalisDark-eyed Junco
- Lagopus lagopusWillow Ptarmigan
- Lagopus leucuraWhite-tailed Ptarmigan
- Mareca americanaAmerican Wigeon
- Meleagris gallopavoWild Turkey
- Melozone crissalisCalifornia Towhee
- Oreortyx pictusMountain Quail
- Ortalis vetulaPlain Chachalaca
- Perdix perdixGray Partridge
- Pipilo maculatusSpotted Towhee
- Plectrophenax nivalisSnow Bunting
- Tympanuchus phasianellusSharp-tailed Grouse
- Zonotrichia atricapillaGolden-crowned Sparrow
- Zonotrichia leucophrysWhite-crowned Sparrow
Direct food only: birds recorded eating this genus across North America. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening
No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Growing and identification
Plant details
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Flower color
- White or red
Growing sources and scope
- Flower color · “White or red” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Conservation status
| Virginia rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| VA status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Virginia DCR Natural Heritage rare plant list
- Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications