Open AccessIMPROVEMENT OF LOTUS ULIGINOSUS
Author(s) -
P. C. Barclay
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1957.19.1082
Subject(s) - lotus , legume , perennial plant , agroforestry , grassland , grazing , geography , biology , agronomy , botany
Lotus uliginosus, commonly called Lotus major, is an important perennial legume in our grassland economy. It has proved valuable as a pioneer legume on peat, pumice, and hill country, where its rambling growth enables it to compete favourably with rushes, scrub, or fern, and as a permanent component of the wetter hill country where it is the important legume wherever the fertility and aspect are not optimum for white clover. It withstands heavy grazing and spreads both rhizomatously and stoloniferously. However, the material available is of great variability, the species in general establishes poorly from seed, and at Palmerston North is dormant in growth throughout May to August.