Hairy Prairie Clover
Hairy Prairie Clover is a perennial species of the Fabaceae or Pea family. The plant’s stems grow along the ground to lengths of 30 to 60 centimetres. The foliage has dense, long hairs which give the plant a velvety texture. A woody tap root anchors the plant. The leaves are alternate, crowded and are between three and five centimeters long. Each leaf consists of an odd number between 11 and 21 leaflets clustered near the tip of the leaf stalk in a near circle or fan shape. Leaflets are elliptical in shape, five to 11 millimeters long. The flowers are pale rose-purple or rarely white. Each flower has a single petal four to six millimetres long by two millimetres broad. It is somewhat heart-shaped at the top but narrows to a slender stalk at the base which attaches inside the calyx. Four additional narrow petal-like structures are attached between the five stamens and these petals form a tube at the base. The flowers are grouped in cylindrical spikes at the stem and branch ends on stalks up to 2.5 centimetres. The dense flower spikes lengthen to three to 12 centimetres long and 0.7 to one centimetre across. The plant forms egg-shaped pods that are three millimetres long.
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