WhitePrairieClover

__//** White Prairie Clover **//__
By: Jordan Best

White Prairie Clover (Dalea candida): #1 This plant is a perennial, white in color and 18 to 24 inches in height. It likes the sun and moisture needs to be dry to average. The soil can contain significant amounts of clay,sand or gravel. It is slow to develop, but drought resistance is very good. Its a good plant for birds, bees and butterfly.#2 It is best to plant the seeds in fall/winter or spread seeds by rubbing them between two sheets of coarse sand paper before planting in early spring. The best bloom between July and August. Some ofthe htings that it attracts is honeybees and its range is thoughout the tall grass prairie. #3The moisture needs to middle to dry. You can find the white prairie clover in about every state insept for the northeast states besides Rhode Island. The plant type is Herbaceous perennial and its family is fabaceae and it is a missourri native. Its native range is central United States and canada. It is also a potentially useful plant for roadside and rest area beautification, park plantings and recreational garden natural area plantings. Native Americans used the plant for both food and medicine.


 * 1) 2The Lakota chewed the roots for its pleasant, sweet taste, and they made tea from dry leaves. Other Great Plains Indians bruised the leaves and steeped them in water for application to fresh wounds. the Pawnees called the plant broom weed because they bundled the tough stems together to make a broom for sweeping their lodges.#1 This leguminous forb produces palatable and nutritioys forage for all classes of livestock and is n important browse species for antelope, deer and upland game birds, particularly sharp-tail grouse. This plant does not really get infected by any diseases or anything its pretty immune to that kind of stuff. This species will decrease and disappear under persistent overgrazing. It is an important legume in native grasslands because of its nitrogen fixing characteristic.#3 Some tribes pulverized the root and made a tea from that powder that was a very healthy drink and a preventative medicine. Some tribes used the entire plant as a prophylactic (//medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive//). Early settlers mixed the bark of the white oak tree and the flowers of this species to make a medicine for diarrhea.Perennial legume with slender stems and numerous small white flowers arranged in dense cylindrical spikes.Leaves alternate on stems, compound, with 3 to 9 narrow leaflets. Flowers bloom from bottom of spike to top. Drought tolerant, deep-rooted. Dry to mesic prairie; somewhat less common than purple prairie-clover.

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Referrences:#1 www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/wpr_cloverx.htm
 * 1) 2www.oakprairiefarm.com/wprclover.htm
 * 2) 3www.esywildflowers.com/quality/dal.cand.htm