Talk:Dalea purpurea

A fact from Dalea purpurea appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 November 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Native Americans used various parts of the purple prairie clover (pictured) for food and to make tea, medicine, and brooms?

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Prairie-clover[edit]

Most refs that could help on this don't even give a common name-- (The Plant List, for example). I'll check in Flora of the Great Plains as soon as I find my copy, but I really think the hyphen should stay. These names are sometimes concatenated for simplicity-- e.g., Douglasfir or Douglas-fir is clearer than Douglas fir, because this is not a true fir (Abies). Nice article, though! --Araucana (talk) 16:14, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here are two more votes for the hyphen: Plant-Life.org (Montana), Arizona Flora (Kearney & Peebles). --Araucana (talk) 18:20, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also GRIN, which is cited on the page. Nadiatalent (talk) 18:45, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]