Forage Identification: White sweetclover

Adaptation:
Biennial legume. Adapted to soils with moderate to excellent drainage and do well on alkaline, but not acid soils. They are drought tolerant and exceptionally winter hardy.

Growth Habitat:
Biennial, erect, coarse stems, 24 to 84 inches tall. Leaflets serrated margins. Deep taproot.

Plant Characteristics:
Pinnately compound leaves with three leaflets. Leaflets are smooth and serrated around the entire margin. Smaller leaves than Yellow sweetclover. Inflorescence is a raceme with white flowers.

Seed Characteristics:
Mitt shaped. Greenish-yellow color.

Important Identifying Characteristics:
Pinnately compound leaves with 3 leaflets per leaf. Long racemes bearing white florets.

Primary Uses:
Pasture, hay and silage. excellent nitrogen fixers and often are used as green manure crops.