Including vitamins A, B complex, and P (when fresh), high in minerals, magnesium, calcium, copper, with some selenium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, sodium, tin, and iron. When completely dry store in either a glass jar or a clean paper bag and label with the date. To dry the flowers, spread gently on a tray and put in a warm airy place, not in direct sunlight. Take a basket or bucket out with you and pluck gently, don’t squeeze.
This can reduce the benefits of the active chemical constituents. Parts used:įlowers take great care when harvesting not to bruise the flowers. It grows from seeds, tolerates most soils in an open sunny situation. It not only feeds stock and provides us with medicine but also deposits nutrients back in the soil. The foliage is a wonderful stock food, being rich in proteins, minerals and vitamins, and can be cut up to three times a year and still thrive. Its roots act as a nitrogen fixer in the soil (a feature of the Fabaceae family).
#RED CLOVER BENEFITS FULL#
It prefers to grow in full sun with good rich fertile soil.
The main flowering time is from late spring to late summer. The foliage is also very nourishing for stock.
They are 10–16 mm long and are sweetly scented, blooming from October–March. The flowers are globe-like, can vary in colour from a very soft pink to dark purplish pink and are the medicinal part of the plant. Poet Identification:Ī perennial herb with trifoliate leaves each leaf divided into three and it grows in clumps, unlike white clover which can run for miles. “To make a prairie it takes a clover & one bee.” – Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. Red Clover belongs to the Fabaceae family (formerly known as Leguminaceae) and originates from Europe and Asia, though it has spread to most places in the world.
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