DESCRIPTION: The Holmgren's milk vetch is a stemless, herbaceous perennial that produces leaves and small purple flowers in spring — both of which die back to the plant's roots after flowering season.

Holmgren's milk vetch is so finely adapted to its arid northern Mojave Desert environment that it's often the only plant found alive atop special soils strewn with small stones and gravel deposits.

The Peirson’s milk vetch, a rare desert plant, will remain on a list of endangered and threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in denying a petition by off-road enthusiasts who ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Conservationists are raising a stink over an endangered plant habitat that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has bulldozed. Patches of the Braunton milk vetch with ...

One of the rarest plants in New England is also one of the hardest to see, even if you know where to find it. That’s because it takes a bit of paddling on the Connecticut River to find each of the ...

IMPERIAL SAND DUNES, Calif. -- This stretch of hot, dry, wind-carved sand is one of the least habitable spots in the U.S. But it has become the battleground for advocates of two rugged denizens of ...

A few ledges along the Connecticut River are home to a rare plant commonly known as Jesup’s milk-vetch (Astragalus robbinsii var. jesupii). In fact, this species, which has been listed as federally ...

Researchers from Utah Valley University and the U.S. Forest Service are planting Holmgren milk-vetch on property along Interstate 15 near the Utah/Arizona border in order to augment the dwindling ...