The plant is native to the north-western United States, and to California, Nevada, and Utah.

[2] Trifolium eriocephalum is a hairy perennial herb producing an upright, unbranched stem.

The leaves are made up of oval leaflets up to 4 centimeters long.

The flower has a densely hairy, tubular calyx of sepals with long, narrow linear lobes that may bend outward.

The white or yellowish corolla may be up to 1.4 centimeters long.