Intro: Erect to reclining perennial of dry woodlands, clearings, old fields and roadsides.

Stems: Stems unbranched, smooth to minutely hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate; on long petioles with tiny, linear stipules at the base; divided into 3 oval to oblong leaflets that are shiny green and smooth above, pale and smooth or with hairs on the midrib beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a long, terminal raceme (occasionally some branching); pink to deep rose-pink; about 1/3 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, the banner petal with 2 whitish-green spots near the base.

Fruits: Fruit a flattened pod with constrictions between 3-5 seeds, covered with hooked hairs that stick to clothing and fur.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect to reclining perennial of dry woodlands, clearings, old fields and roadsides.

stems: Stems unbranched, smooth to minutely hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate; on long petioles with tiny, linear stipules at the base; divided into 3 oval to oblong leaflets that are shiny green and smooth above, pale and smooth or with hairs on the midrib beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a long, terminal raceme (occasionally some branching); pink to deep rose-pink; about 1/3 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, the banner petal with 2 whitish-green spots near the base.

fruits: Fruit a flattened pod with constrictions between 3-5 seeds, covered with hooked hairs that stick to clothing and fur.

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