Dalea mollis
# Dalea mollis

Dalea mollis is a species of flowering plant in the legume family which is known by the common name hairy prairie clover.

## Distribution

This wildflower is native to the deserts of California, Arizona, and Northwestern Mexico.

It is a common member of the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert ecoregions. It forms a small, flat patches on the gravelly desert floor and on slopes and weedy roadsides.

## Description

Dalea mollis is a small cloverlike mat-forming annual legume with gland-dotted foliage covered thickly in long white hairs. The leaves are made up of several pairs of small, folded, oval-shaped leaflets each about a centimeter long. The plant flowers in pea-like blooms just under a centimeter wide which may be lavender, yellow, or white, sometimes bicolored. The fruit is a small, single-seeded legume pod.

