Winter Cover Crops for North Carolina

Legumes:

• crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum)
• red clover (Trifolium pratense)
• hairy vetch (Vicia villosa)
• Austrian winter pea (Pisum sativum subsp. arvense)
• annual white sweetclover (Melilotus alba)
• yellow sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis)
• berseem clover (Trifolium alexandrinum)
• subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum)
• white clover (Trifolium repens)
• faba bean (Vicia faba)
• lupin (Lupinus spp.)
• Sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata)

Non-legumes:

• cereal rye (Secale cereale)
• annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum)
• barley (Hordeum vulgare)
• mustard (Brassica nigra)
• oat (Avena sativa)
• rape (Brassica napus)
• winter wheat (Triticum aestivum)

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This page last updated October 16, 2006.

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