Excellent waterlogging tolerance and mildly salt tolerant.It is also highly palatable and digestible feed with high forage yield. Ideally suited to hay or silage production. SHAFTAL has a long term persistence and its seed varies in colour depending on cultivar with 820 000 – 2 million seeds / kg. It leaves trifoliate with leaflets egg to triangular shaped with strong veins and a toothed margin; more than 10 mm long; stipule tapers to a find point. Mature plants semi-erect to erect, succulent with medium-thick hollow stems (varies between subspecies). Used in mixtures with annual ryegrasses