Habitat: Dry, open forests, woodlands, clearings, old fields, and roadsides. Common in the coastal Plain and piedmont; infrequent in the mountains.
Wildlife Value: Food source for bobwhite, turkey, grouse, and deer. This is a larval host plant for many species of butterfly, including: Silver-Spotted Skipper, Hoary Edge, Northern Cloudywing, Southern Cloudywing , Gray Hairstreak and Eastern Tailed-Blue. In the winter, its seeds serve as a food source for songbirds, quail, and small mammals
Notes: Can be used as a living mulch or green manure as they are able to improve soil fertility via nitrogen fixation. They can also be used as livestock fodder. The hairy seedpods readily cling to fur and clothing so both animals and humans unwittingly spread their seeds. They germinate readily and can become weedy.
Earth Sangha Inventory
Founded in 1997, the Earth Sangha is a nonprofit public charity based in the Washington, DC, region. The Wild Plant Nursery is the most comprehensive source of local-ecotype, native plants in the Washington DC region, and the region’s only facility dedicated exclusively to this type of propagation. “Local-ecotype” plants are propagated from local, wild, naturally-occurring populations and are well-adapted to local conditions and for wildlife species that depend on the local forms, such as pollinators. Inventory is updated on a weekly basis so number may not be accurate.
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