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Light
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Full, Partial
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Moisture
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Medium to Dry
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Bloom
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Late Summer
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Color
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White, Pink, Green
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Height
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4 FT
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Round-headed bushclover is an upright, perennial pea family member with high wildlife value. It prefers full sun to part shade and can tolerate a variety of soil, including very poor sandy soil, as long as it is well-drained. Round-headed bushclover is resistant to drought and can self-seed in its ideal conditions.
From its six foot tap root and network of lateral roots, round-headed bushclover extends its unbranching stems two to four feet in height. The stems are clad in nearly sessile, alternately arranged leaves compounded in sets of three narrow, elliptical leaflets. In summer the flowers form in fuzzy, rounded, clover-like clusters that alternately adorn the tops of the stems. The tiny, individual flowers have a classic pea flower shape and are white to cream marked with a central splash of magenta. These flower clusters ripen into dark brown seed heads which persist throughout the winter. These dark seed heads provide late season visual interest to garden viewers, and an important late season food source to myriad birds and small mammals. Some of the bird species that eat these seeds include the mourning dove, bobwhite quail, and wild turkey. Moreover, the foliage hosts the caterpillars of a number of butterfly and moth species such as the southern cloudywing butterfly, northern cloudywing butterfly, hoary edge butterfly, eastern tailed blue, and bella moth. As a legume, round-headed bushclover fixes atmospheric nitrogen into soil.
