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Fabaceae
Cowgrass clover
Trifolium pratense
Also known as Cow clover, Zigzag clover, Lagopus pratensis, Red clover
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Clover · Legume · Nitrogen-Fixing · Ground-Cover · Pollinator · Trifolium · Meadow · Pasture · Easy-Care · Flowers
Red clover is an easy-care legume that fixes nitrogen in the soil and produces beautiful pink flowers. It thrives in average garden conditions with regular watering and full sun to partial shade. This hardy plant attracts beneficial pollinators and serves as excellent ground cover.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Moderate watering to keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6.5–7.6
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Purple
- Foliage
- Green · Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil South, Bulgaria
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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