Intro: Erect to spreading perennial found in sandhills, river dunes and longleaf pine woodlands.

Stems: Stems branching, yellowish-green, with a white-waxy coating, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile and seemingly pierced by the stem (perfoliate), oval to nearly round, 2-4 in. long, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers borne singly in leaf axils, yellow, 1/2 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape.

Fruits: Fruit a sturdy, round, inflated pod with short beak at the tip; green, drying to silvery-brown.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect to spreading perennial found in sandhills, river dunes and longleaf pine woodlands.

stems: Stems branching, yellowish-green, with a white-waxy coating, smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile and seemingly pierced by the stem (perfoliate), oval to nearly round, 2-4 in. long, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers borne singly in leaf axils, yellow, 1/2 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape.

fruits: Fruit a sturdy, round, inflated pod with short beak at the tip; green, drying to silvery-brown.

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native range: SC, GA, FL & MS