White Clover, Ladino (Ladino Trifolium repens)
Description
Ladino white clover varieties are usually more productive than Dutch white clover varieties and will survive taller pasture situations.
Strengths
Tolerates poorly drained soil; very palatable; excellent adaptation to managed grazing systems.
Limitations
Its shallow root system limits production on excessively drained soils and during droughty periods; can cause bloat when grazed.
General
- Longevity
- Short-lived perennial
- Growth Habit
- Stolons
- Primary Growth Seasons
- Spring, early summer, fall
- Plant Height (in cm)
- 30 to 60
- Seeds (per lb)
- 860,000
- Seedling Vigor
- Fair - Good
Climate and Soil Tolerances
- Heat/Drought
- Poor - Fair
- Cold
- Poor - Fair
- Wet Soil/Poor Drainage
- Good - Excellent
- Salinity
- Fair
- High pH Alkalinity
- Poor
- Low pH Acidity
- Fair - Good
Fertility Requirements
- Optimum pH
- 6.0 - 7.0
- Required Fertility Levels
- Low - High
Performance Potential
- Feed Value/Quality
- Very High
- Palatability
- Excellent
- Digestibility
- Excellent
- Crude Protein
- High
- Tonnage (Yield)
- Low
- Nitrogen Fixation (lbs/ac/year)
- 100 - 200
Use/Application
- Continuous Grazing
- Fair
- Rotational Grazing
- Excellent
- Hay
- Fair
- Silage
- Fair
Seeding Rates (HG/HA)
- Pure Stand
- -
- Hay mixture (with legumes)
- 2.2 to 4.5
- Hay mixture (with grasses)
- 1.1 - 4.5