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Yellow Sweet Clover Seeds
Yellow Sweet Clover Seeds
Pack contains: 500+ seeds
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Yellow Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis), also called Yellow Melilot, is a fragrant biennial or short lived perennial native to Europe and Asia and widely naturalized elsewhere. Its small yellow pea flowers attract bees and butterflies.
Like other legumes, it fixes nitrogen and has been used as a cover crop, green manure, and forage plant.
Cold Hardiness Zone: 2
Mature Size: 2 to 4 ft
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Growing details
- Origin and status
- Native to Eurasian and Mediterranean regions; non-native and invasive in North America, including non-native status in Manitoba
- Growing site
- Open sunny sites; broad soil tolerance, often productive on neutral to alkaline soil; seedlings need moisture and established plants tolerate drought
- Pollination
- Flowers are perfect, but natural self-fertilization is uncommon; insects, especially bees, improve seed set
- Lifecycle note
- Usually biennial and a prolific seed producer; classified as non-native and invasive in North America
- Spread
- Primarily spreads by prolific seed production; vegetative sprouting after damage is rare
Cold hardinessZone 2 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 2 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – Canada