Blooming March and April in pink, clover-like shaggy masses on hillsides and valleys, is the annual wildflower, purple owl’s clover (Castilleja exserta, formerly Orthocarpus pupurascens). The upright, ...

Purple prairie clover is a tough, upright plant with abundant purple flowers that are impervious to late summer heat and drought. A deep-rooted, nitrogen-fixing legume, it can handle and improve ...

Purple prairie clover, Dalea purpurea, is a deep-rooted prairie plant that looks fragile and thread-like in early spring, particularly in nursery pots. Get up-to-the ...

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Add clover to the lawn? For more than 70 years, clover has been viewed primarily as a “lawn weed” that’s to be eradicated along with the dandelions, chickweed, and crabgrass in pursuit of the ideal ...

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Call it a flower or call it a weed — clover is a plant everyone knows. Who hasn’t idled away an hour hunting for a four-leaf clover, hoping for good luck? A member of the legume family, clover is ...