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  Summer Cover Crops for North Carolina

Under Construction:
Photos and Management Tips Coming Soon!

Legumes:

  • cowpea (Vigna unguiculata)
  • sunnhemp (Crotolaria juncea)
  • soybean (Glycine max)
  • velvetbean (Mucuna deeringianum)

Non-legumes:

  • pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
  • German (foxtail) millet (Setaria italica)
  • Japanese millet (Enchinochloa frumentacea)
  • buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)
  • sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum bicolor x S. sudanese)


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    This page last updated January 16, 2006.

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