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It would be hard to go wrong with almost all clovers, just need to see which does best in your area for you. The Durana clover grows well and tall, birdsfoot trefoil is a good one too competes well and grows tall.
I've got most of your pollinator list out and more, takes a couple years for those to come in good but are super for bees and butterflies too, the Indian blanket is one of my favorites.
It would be hard to go wrong with almost all clovers, just need to see which does best in your area for you. The Durana clover grows well and tall, birdsfoot trefoil is a good one too competes well and grows tall.
I've got most of your pollinator list out and more, takes a couple years for those to come in good but are super for bees and butterflies too, the Indian blanket is one of my favorites.
No, almost the opposite over time. The clover stays in the understory pretty good, your pollinators and grass will outgrow it to where it is only in the thinner spots and trails.
I don't think I'd plant ag clovers in a prairie mix. You don't want the competition with the natives and you'll be using fire to maintain it. You could add lupine to that mix for another deer-favored forb.
They eat native lupine on my place- especially the flower buds. But they eat things on my place that they don't eat everywhere; I have high deer density and poor native browse.