Let’s figure it out! Vetch sounds pretty cool, but do we even know what vetch is? Vetches are a member of the pea family, scientifically known as Fabaceae. This family is the third-largest plant ...

About a mile from his office at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Thomas Devine has reduced nine years of research to a 3-foot-wide strip of earth that runs about half the length of a ...

DESCRIPTION: The Peirson's milk vetch is a perennial herb with erect stems, eight to 36 inches long. Flower clusters contain five to 20 flowers with pink-purple petals, often white tipped. The fruit ...

Q.: How can you get rid of crown vetch? I've used 2-4-D and Round-Up and just when you think it's dead, it starts to green up again. I'm not sure exactly how it got into this one patch of my yard, but ...

I have been trying to start up the debate I am certain Alaskans need to have regarding the introduction of non-native plants. We are the last place in the United States, unfortunately, able to have ...

DESCRIPTION: The Lane Mountain milk vetch is a wispy perennial plant with a woody base, many branches, and weak stems that grow up to 20 inches long in a zigzag pattern. Its sparse leaves have between ...