My brother brought me this plant for the memory garden in 2018. We were unclear about its identity, but I’ve since done some research and found out it is alfalfa! How sadly citified must I be that I didn’t recognize such a well-known crop plant? The plant is surprisingly ornamental. It gets big and bushy–three feet tall and wide and starts blooming in June with soft lavender-blue clover-like flower heads. It is planted in a tough spot under in poor soil under a Douglas fir tree and shrugs off that adversity.
In 2020, I’m just enjoying the simplicity of this plant and trying to see if pollinators like it as much as they seem to like other leguminous garden plants, like the lupines and clovers nearby.