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Fabaceae
Large hop clover
Trifolium campestre
Also known as Yellow clover, Hop trefoil, Big hop clover, Trifolium campestre f. nanum
Native Plants · Clover · Legume · Nitrogen-Fixing · Wildflower · Meadow · Pollinator · Hardy · Yellow-Flowers
Large hop clover is a hardy legume that thrives in average garden conditions with minimal care. It prefers full sun to partial shade and tolerates various soil types while fixing nitrogen naturally. This plant is excellent for wildflower meadows and requires little intervention once established.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, allowing soil to dry between waterings · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–5.5
- 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
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina South, Arkansas, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil South, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, Chatham Is.
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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