Sainfoin
Onobrychis viciifolia
- Flowering period
- May–July
- Nectar
- sehr gut
- Pollen
- sehr gut
Sainfoin flowers from May to July in pink racemes and is an outstanding bee forage plant: both nectar and pollen are rated very rich. It is lime-loving and grows on warm, moderately dry, poor soils where other forage plants fail. As a forage crop it was once widespread and is being sown more often again today. For dry sites it is one of the very best forage plants there is.
Sources (5)
- Bienenweidekatalog Baden-Württemberg, Ministerium für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz mit Universität Hohenheim
- Saat-Esparsette, Pflanzensteckbrief bei Die Honigmacher (Deutscher Imkerbund)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Saat-Esparsette
- Bienenweiden, Hortipendium
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments