Fabaceae
Egyptian clover
Trifolium alexandrinum
Also known as Trifolium albiceps, Trifolium alexandrinum var. serotinum, Cairo clover, berseem clover
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Clover · Cover Crop · Nitrogen Fixer · Forage · Legume · Fabaceae · Berseem · Pollinator · Soil Amendment · Fast Growing
Egyptian clover, also known as berseem clover, is a fast-growing annual forage legume that thrives in moderately fertile, well-drained soils. It benefits from regular moisture and at least five hours of sunlight per day, making it well-suited to open garden beds or fields. As a nitrogen-fixing legume, it naturally improves soil health while producing nectar-rich flowers that attract bees and butterflies.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, keeping soil consistently moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6.5–8
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 20 ft – 40 ft
- Spread
- 20 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Mixed
- Foliage
- Green · Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, China Southeast, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Jawa, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, New South Wales
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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