Intro: Erect to sprawling perennial of sandhills, dry to moist (but not wet) pine savannas and flatwoods, dry forests, woodlands, woodland borders, glades, barrens and rock outcrops.

Stems: Stems branched from the base, sometimes prostrate, usually covered with long, stiff, reddish hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with stipules that sheath the stem, divided into 3 elliptic to lance-shaped leaflets, each ½-1½ in. long with a sharp tip and usually very hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary clusters of 2-6, yellow, about 1/3 in. long, with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect "banner" petal that is often streaked with red.

Fruits: Fruit a hairy, sessile, oval pod with 2 segments.

Comments:

Height: 4-20 in.

plant sale text:

bloom table text:

description: Erect to sprawling perennial of sandhills, dry to moist (but not wet) pine savannas and flatwoods, dry forests, woodlands, woodland borders, glades, barrens and rock outcrops.

stems: Stems branched from the base, sometimes prostrate, usually covered with long, stiff, reddish hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with stipules that sheath the stem, divided into 3 elliptic to lance-shaped leaflets, each ½-1½ in. long with a sharp tip and usually very hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary clusters of 2-6, yellow, about 1/3 in. long, with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect "banner" petal that is often streaked with red.

fruits: Fruit a hairy, sessile, oval pod with 2 segments.

comments:

cultural notes:

germination code:

native range: eastern United States