White Prairie-Clover

Dalea candida  (formerly Petalostemum candidum)

This Prairie-Clover tends to send up one or very few shoots, which may branch a little at the top to support several cylindrical flowering heads. Each of these is tightly packed with buds, producing a ring of very small white flowers in a ring, beginning at the bottom and progressing up the cylinder over the blooming season. The head may be up to 3 inches long and is about 1/2 inch wide.  The compound leaves are rather open, up to about 6 inches long, with lance-shaped opposite leaflets about 1/4-inch wide and seldom more than 1 inch long.  The leave are a slightly grey-green or light green color.  

1-3 feet, sun.

Summer (July-August).

  6 July 2020.

White Prairie-Clover, 15 July 2020.