White Prairie Clover Texas Native adding to the joy of

adding to the joy of the garden

earning its common name due to its iron-like durability and striking seed clusters that resemble rust

trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in cheerful yellow-orange and red shades

often called southern black haw

the flowers unfurl from top to bottom on the spikes

White Prairie Clover Texas Native adding to the joy ofDalea candida Dalea candida, commonly called White Prairie Clover, is a delicate looking but quite hardy perennial that naturally occurs in sandy, rocky, or clayey soils in prairies in open woods all through Texas and much of North America. Tiny white flowers in dense, cylindrical heads bloom atop erect, slender stems in summer Flowers bloom bottom to top, forming a dense ruff that slowly moves up the flower head. This is a nitrogen fixing plant,