Full Sun
Easy care
Moderate watering
Frost Hardy
6a
USDA zone
-23°C
Minimum temperature
Expected size
Height | Spread | |
|---|---|---|
20cm | Max | 50cm |
15cm | Min | 30cm |
Flowering
spring
summer
autumn
winter
This plant has a mild fragrance
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Clover Overview
Trifolium repens is a European and central Asian native perennial wildflower that has been introduced worldwide as a forage crop. White or Assegaai Clover is a member of the legume family that helps fix Nitrogen in the soil, making it available as plant food for following crops or neighbouring plants and is frequently grown as green manure. It is also grown as a valuable fodder crop for cattle and horses. It, unfortunately, grows too well and is often treated as an weed. Trifolium repens produces varieties which are classed by size of the petiole (stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem). The common name Dutch Clover is used for varieties that have intermediate length stalks, while Ladino Clover refers to those with longer stalks. White clover is used for the species in general.
Common problems with Clover
Problem free
How to harvest Clover
Plough into the field as green manure.
How to propagate Clover
Layering
As soon as a runner touch the soil , it makes roots and grows into a new plant.
Seed
Sow in situ from March onwards, germination should occure within a few weeks.
Division
Division in spring.
Special features of Clover
Attracts useful insects
Bees love to visit the flowers and it is a good source of food for bees and other insects.
Pot plant
Crop rotation
Part of the legume family and therefor a great Nitrogen fixer and green manure.
Other uses of Clover
Fodder crop. Meadow Attracts butterflies
