Dalea mollis is a species of flowering plant in the legume family which is known by the common name hairy prairie clover.

It forms a small, flat patches on the gravelly desert floor and on slopes and weedy roadsides.

Dalea mollis is a small cloverlike mat-forming annual legume with gland-dotted foliage covered thickly in long white hairs.

The leaves are made up of several pairs of small, folded, oval-shaped leaflets each about a centimeter long.

The plant flowers in pea-like blooms just under a centimeter wide which may be lavender, yellow, or white, sometimes bicolored.