DESCRIPTION: The Peirson's milk vetch is a perennial herb with erect stems, eight to 36 inches long. Flower clusters contain five to 20 flowers with pink-purple petals, often white tipped. The fruit ...

Crews for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power recently bulldozed hundreds of federally endangered plants in Topanga State Park, and both state and city authorities have launched ...

Let’s figure it out! Vetch sounds pretty cool, but do we even know what vetch is? Vetches are a member of the pea family, scientifically known as Fabaceae. This family is the third-largest plant ...

Federal officials have paved the way for expanded use of off-road vehicles at the Algodones Dunes in the Mojave Desert by lifting special protection for a 50,000-acre section of the sand dunes ...

Crown vetch is a perennial legume that spreads by strong fleshy rhizomes (underground root stalks). It has coarse, strongly branched stems 2-6 feet long and an extremely heavy multi-branched root ...

DESCRIPTION: The stems of Shivwitz milk vetch may grow along the ground or vertically to a height of 20 to 50 centimeters, although flowering stems may grow to one meter. Leaves are pinnately compound ...