Hytas
Alsike Clover
fact sheet
A semi-erect biennial with good Autumn and Spring/early Summer vigour.
Strengths:
  • Suited to a wide range of soils and tolerates low fertility, poorly drained soils and is well suited to peaty soil
  • Excellent cold tolerance
  • Productive late in the season in cool temperate areas too dry to sustain white clover
  • Low oestrogen levels
Pasture type and use:

Hytas is a semi-erect plant with stems growing to around 80mm tall.

The well developed crown produces many branching hollow stems up to 1 metre long.

Suitable for grazing and hay production. Grazing should be lax in the early stages of establishment to allow the plants to develop a strong root system.

Rainfall:

Best adapted for sowing in cool, temperate medium to high rainfall areas receiving greater than 500mm annual rainfall.

Sowing:

Best sown at a depth of 5mm and can be drilled, direct drilled or broadcast.

Hytas is preferably sown in late Summer to Autumn for sufficient seedling development coming into Winter, but can be sown in Spring in areas with a long growing season.

Hytas should not be used for the grazing of horses and conserved feed produced from such pastures should not be fed to horses.

Sowing rates:

3-5kg/Ha alone.

2kg/Ha in a mix.