![]() The flowers are white and sometimes have a pinkish tint. The flowers can be fragrant and are reminiscent of honey. Its pollen has the high protein content that pollinators that collect pollen need and the nectar has a high sugar content, which is good for those pollinators that depend on nectar. The forage quality of the flowers for bees is excellent. White clover has a long bloom time, usually from the end of May to October with a peak of flowering in June. This means that white clover doesn’t need to be fertilized with nitrogen, making it a good part of a low-input lawn. As a legume, it has the ability to fix its own nitrogen. White clover has one particular trait that the other two bee lawn flowers don’t have. It is tolerant to some shade, though it may bloom sparsely without enough sun, and is adaptable to different soil types. White clover has many positive traits that make it ideal for a bee lawn. It is unfortunate that white clover is now thought of as a weed in home lawns. You have probably seen white clover many times and may already have white clover in your lawn. ![]() It is a non-native species (as are all the cool-season turfgrasses) and somewhere along the line it became considered a weed.
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