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 ...

Bird vetch is rampant in Alaska. Some Anchorage residents are coming together to prevent it from choking out native plants ...

LOS ANGELES— Today the Bush administration issued a new final critical habitat for the federally and state-protected Peirson’s milk-vetch, as mandated by federal law. The new determination identifies ...

This time of year vetch may be seen in open or partially shaded areas. The plant is six to 12 inches in height, but with no bloom or seed pods. After a typical March frost vetch is left unaffected.

Federal wildlife officials have proposed designating about 53,000 acres in Imperial County as critical habitat for the threatened Peirson’s milk vetch plant, a move that cheered ...

Then mulch with leaves and smother the new plants that might try to emerge. While it will be a few weeks before we see those yellow butter and eggs, the first purple vetch, Vicia americana, have ...

Crown vetch is a legume that spreads quickly. Once established, it creeps along on top of other vegetation, which it uses for support. Over time, vetch smothers out plants below it and can form ...