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Fabaceae
Alsike clover
Trifolium hybridum
Also known as Swedish clover, Amoria hybrida, Trifolium elegans subsp. hybridum, Hybrid clover
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Alsike Clover · Clover · Pollinator Plant · Nitrogen Fixer · Meadow · Cover Crop · Trifolium · Bees · Fast Growing · Fabaceae
Alsike clover is a fast-growing perennial clover that thrives in full sun to partial shade and tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, making it ideal for meadow gardens, lawns, or pollinator patches. Water regularly during establishment; once mature it is largely self-sufficient. It naturally fixes nitrogen in the soil, improving fertility for neighboring plants.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water deeply to keep soil evenly moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.6–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- White, Purple
- Foliage
- Green · Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile South
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda, aspca
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