It performs well on poor, infertile soils and is useful in stabilizing critical or disturbed sites. Cicer milkvetch is a long-lived, perennial legume with a vigorous, creeping, root system and a short ...

LA wildfire and Braunton's milkvetch (Picture credit: AP/ Los Angeles Times) In a clash between fire safety and conservation, California's eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near ...

A damaged Braunton’s milkvetch plant lies on the ground in the Topanga State Park. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power damaged nearly 200 of the endangered plants during a power pole ...

However, the project was halted within days after an amateur botanist complained about the harm done to some of the park's Braunton's milkvetch during the work. The city—accused by the state of ...

But, after an amateur botanist hiking through the park during the work saw the harm done to some of the park’s Braunton’s milkvetch — a flowered shrub with only a few thousand specimens rema ...