LOS ANGELES— Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dismissed a sham petition to remove the Peirson’s milk-vetch from Endangered Species Act protection. The Service determined that the rare plant is ...

If you want to plant crown vetch, spring is the time to do so. A member of the legume (pea) family, crown vetch is a perennial ground cover. It offers fine-textured foliage in spring and attractive ...

Unaccustomed to cosmopolitan life, the Coachella Valley milk vetch finds itself and its sandy home amid one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. Living at the edge of ...

Q: I have a steep slope that was covered in crown vetch. I covered it in landscape fabric and mulch to kill it. It's been two years and it appears to have worked. Should I go ahead and tear up the mat ...

Emily Becker demonstrates how to identify bird vetch in Anchorage's Airport Heights neighborhood on July 3, 2025. Emily Becker hunched over a patch of purple flowers in a public easement garden in ...