Purple clover

Purple clover is great for soil and livestock, and we humans can forage and benefit from this healthy herb, too. Here's how to ID, forage and use purple clover. 📸 breakingthewalls/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun

Red Clover has shown anticancer activity, poultices of the herb have been used as local applications to cancerous growths.

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If you want to make purple clover jelly, you're in luck! Check out this super easy and tasty recipe we're sharing!

Even if white clover is a major pest in your lawn, you might consider its cousin, purple four-leaf clover. This quick-growing groundcover bears rich chocolate-purple foliage edged in green. Curiously, most of the leaves have four leaflets instead of the traditional three, so you can always feel lucky! Name: Trifolium repens 'Atropurpureum' Growing Conditions: Sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil Size: To 8 inches tall and 18 inches wide Zones: 4-9

Exserted Indian PaintbrushCastilleja exserta ssp. exsertaNATIVE Description (Jepson, PlantID.net) Distribution Uses (San Mateo County Parks prohibits removal of any natural material) Name Derivation Notes ID Tips Dense-flowered Owl’s-clover Purple Owl’s-clover Valley Tassels Yellow Cream Sacs Hairiness slightly hairy densely hairy… Read More Purple Owl’s-clover

I want fields of purple clover in my yard.

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I've never seen purple before.