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Clover Glycine

Glycine latrobeana

Also called Australian Anchor Plant

Clover Glycine
Photo: DavidFrancis34 from Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Clover glycine is a scrambling perennial vine from south-eastern Australia, grown mainly as a native groundcover or climber in dry, open sites. It needs good drainage and sun, and tolerates dry conditions once established.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering once established.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Glycine latrobeana, the clover glycine or Australian anchor plant, is a species of perennial herb endemic to south-eastern Australia. Its leaves are similar in appearance to the common pasture clover. It is native to Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia.

Other Glycine plants

Silky Glycine · Twining Glycine · Basketlike Lobed Soybean · Glycine falcata · Glycine latifolia · Soybean · Small Leaf Glycine · Wild Soybean · Glycine · Glycine · Soybean

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glycine latrobeana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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