Trifolium repens -- (White Clover)


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 Scientific Name:  Trifolium repens
 Common Name:  White Clover
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  White
 Plant Origin:  Introduced
 Soil Type prefered:  Loam, Clay
 Drought Tolerance:  Low
 Flower Conspicuous:  Yes
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  High
 Moisture Use:  Medium
 Shade Tolerance:  Intolerant
 Active Growth Period:  Spring, Summer, Fall
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  Low
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  Medium
 Bloom Period:  Late Spring
 Commercial Availability:  Routinely Available
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  150
 Foliage Color:  Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  High
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Color:  Brown
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  Medium
 Foliage Texture:  Medium
 Growth Form:  Stoloniferous
 Growth Habit:  Forb/herb
 Growth Rate:  Moderate
 Height, Mature (feet):  .5
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Moderate
 Nitrogen Fixation:  Medium
 pH (Maximum):  7.5
 pH (Minimum):  6
 Precipitation (Minimum):  24
 Protein Potential:  High
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  12
 Salt Tolerance:  Low
 Shape and Orientation:  Prostrate
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed per Pound:  776000
 Seed Spread Rate:  Slow
 Seedling Vigor:  Low
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -39
 Toxicity:  Slight
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Propagation:  Seed
 Palpable: (eatable)

 Uses:  Fodder
 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Fabales
 Family:  Fabaceae
 Genus:  Trifolium

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