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Fabaceae
Rose clover
Trifolium hirtum
Also known as Trifolium hispidum, Trifolium pictum, Trifolium hirtum f. ramosum, Trifolium laguroides
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Clover · Cover Crop · Pollinator Plant · Meadow · Nitrogen Fixer · Groundcover · Annual · Pink Flowers · Low Maintenance · Pasture
Rose clover is a fast-growing annual or short-lived perennial that produces charming rosy-pink globular flower heads attractive to bees and butterflies. It thrives in full sun to partial shade and is often used as a cover crop, pasture plant, or low meadow groundcover. It requires little maintenance and can reseed itself to naturalize in suitable areas.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; keep soil evenly moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Purple
- Foliage
- Green · Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Algeria, Altay, Belarus, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Morocco, Nansei-Shoto
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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