Intro: Spreading-erect annual/biennial of fields, roadsides and disturbed areas. Native of Eurasia.
Stems: Stems simple to much-branched, covered with flattened hairs.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with stipules of about equal length, divided into 3 oblong-lance-shaped leaflets that are 1/2-3/4 in. long and finely toothed (except near the base).
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers densely packed into cylindric-oval heads ½--4/3 in. long; each flower is yellow turning creamy and then rust brown, tiny, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape.
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Height: 6-14 in.
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description: Spreading-erect annual/biennial of fields, roadsides and disturbed areas. Native of Eurasia.
stems: Stems simple to much-branched, covered with flattened hairs.
leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with stipules of about equal length, divided into 3 oblong-lance-shaped leaflets that are 1/2-3/4 in. long and finely toothed (except near the base).
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers densely packed into cylindric-oval heads ½--4/3 in. long; each flower is yellow turning creamy and then rust brown, tiny, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape.
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