White Prairie Clover

Dalea candida

Pollinator plantNitrogen fixer

Growing it

When	Flowers July to August
Type	wildflower
Sun	Full sun
Water	Low
Soil	pH 6–8
Hardiness	zone 3–8
Mature height	0.5 m
Mature spread	0.3 m
Spacing	0.2 m
Years to maturity	2
Bloom	Jul–Aug
Flower colour	White checked against its Latin name
In bloom	July August
Native to	AB, SK

feather-compound leaves about 4 cm long

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

55 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 9 herbarium specimens and 114 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 103 records, high confidence
Fescue Grassland south AB: 68 records, high confidence
Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 58 records, high confidence
Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 28 records, high confidence
Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 11 records, medium confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

21 documented relationships.

nectar for

American Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena lupinorum Clint Otto et al. 2020
Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from scan-bugs.org
Coral Hairstreak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Goldenrod Soldier Beetle Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Gray Hairstreak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Great Golden Digger Wasp Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Hylaeus verticalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Megachile latimanus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Northern Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Orange-legged Furrow Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Peck's Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Sphex lucae Specimen records from iNaturalist.org

pollen for

Black-tailed Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Golden Northern Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Hunt's Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Orange-banded Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Red-belted Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Buying it

About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (herb default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate