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Plant · P-083
Crimson Clover
Trifolium incarnatum
Crimson Clover is a cool-season nitrogen-fixing cover crop and forage, sown in fall and gone by summer, that puts roughly 70-150 lb of nitrogen per acre into the following crop and yields forage that rarely causes bloat, unlike alfalfa or red clover. It will not establish on calcareous or poorly-drained alkaline ground, so it needs well-drained sandy loam, clay, or amended soil at pH 6.0-7.0 rather than raw alkaline clay.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 4–9
- Soil
- Silt · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moderate
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Plant type
- Annual
- Mature height
- 12–36 in
- Mature spread
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