Mammoth Red Clover is a quick growing biennial prized for its ability to restore soil structure and add nitrogen to depleted soils. This clover variety grows 1 to 2 feet tall with 3-leaflet clover leaves and displays multiple round delicate & purplish pointed florets. Mammoth Red Clover will grow in more acidic soil than other clovers which usually prefer more neutral soils. The flowers are edible and may be used to garnish drinks, salads, and soups for very mild honey-like flavor. This plant provides an excellent source of forage for grazing animals and nectar for foraging bees and other pollinators. Mammoth Red Clover tolerates some shade so you can sow in between vegetable or flower rows, under tall plants such as heavy nitrogen feeding crops like corn, or under fruit trees and hardy perennials. Mammoth Red Clover is typically grown as a quick-growing biannual groundcover because of its ability to obtain nitrogen from the atmosphere and “fix” it underground onto nodules attached to its deep tap roots. This process is referred to as ‘nitrogen fixation’ and can be combined with other regenerative techniques like incorporating grazing animals, ‘green manure till-in’ techniques, mow, or cut back with a weed trimmer at the end of bloom and before seeds form. Red Mammoth Clover can re-grow after light grazing or mowing once flowering has begun to avoid reseeding.