Aeschynomene (vetch)

[String Music]

I was reading a recent article that praised this plant for food plots in the south. I have never heard of this plant and was wondering if anybody has any experience with it.

 

[deerchaser007]

I wouldn't recommend it as a food plot,.. but as habitat substitute in patches or on hillside clearings or in logging roads,.. it works really well.Grows real thick and viny and hard to bush hog,.. SO it works great for erosion control,.. and its a moderate on deer browse.

 

[Hogbear]

We bought this place 6.5 years ago and the previous owner had planted vetch for his cows a few years before that. It still grows very thick in most places and the bees love the blooms every year. It will bog down a bush hog and the deer don't seem to eat it much because by the time the vetch is up good, there's plenty of other stuff around to eat too. It's just up now but very small/close to the ground.

 

[Football Hunter]

Rread about it,never used it.

 

[BSK]

Use to be EXTREMELY popular in the Deep South. Now soybeans have taken its place.

 

[Boone 58]

Usually just referred to as vetch , crown vetch.....most southern folks cant pronounce the other word...............lmbo.

 

[MickThompson]

American jointvetch (Aeschynomene) is not the same thing as what you see on road shoulders for erosion control. Crown vetch and hairy vetch are exotic cool-season plants and aren't heavily used by deer.They are also extremely invasive.

Jointvetch is a native of the deep south. It is a warm-season planting. It is used fairly well by deer, but seed production can be spotty because there are few producers. I wouldn't discourage you from planting it, but I don't see it as being any better than cowpeas or soybeans, just something different.