Thank you for buying a native plant from Windflower Native Plant Nursery. Your purchase helps create a bit of Montana natural  history in your own yard as well as restore a piece of native Montana. This plant was grown by seed I collected locally in an ethical manner.    

Purple prairie-clover
Dalea purpurea or Petalostemon purpureus
Legume Family (Fabaceae)

Color: Purple
Plant height: 12 -30” tall long bloom season
Bloom time: long bloom season, mid to late summer
Native habitat: prairies, along roadsides and rocky or open woods

A member of the Pea or Legume Family this plant is a nitrogen fixer. Bees and butterflies are attracted to it.

The bottom flowers bloom first and this ring of blooms moves up the spike as the season progresses.

Meriwether Lewis wrote in his journal, “this plant is a stranger to me”, when he collected it in Nebraska in 1804.

Windflower Native Plant Nursery
PO Box 306
West Glacier, MT 59936
1.406.387.5527
www.windflowernativeplants.com