Intro: Erect to prostrate annual of fields, roadsides, disturbed forests and other disturbed habitats. Native of e. Asia.

Stems: Stems much-branched, usually spreading across the ground, often reddish, very hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate; on 1/4-in.-long petioles with papery, lance-oval stipules; divided into 3 oval leaflets up to 1/2 in. long and with many closely spaced parallel veins and hairy margins.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in dense, spike-like racemes from upper leaf axils; bi-colored pink and white; with typical pea-flower shape, including a large, round, erect "banner" petal with darker pinkish-purple markings.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, flattened, broadly oval pod with a short beak and covered at the base by the persistent calyx; contains a single seed.

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Height: 4-22 in.

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description: Erect to prostrate annual of fields, roadsides, disturbed forests and other disturbed habitats. Native of e. Asia.

stems: Stems much-branched, usually spreading across the ground, often reddish, very hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate; on 1/4-in.-long petioles with papery, lance-oval stipules; divided into 3 oval leaflets up to 1/2 in. long and with many closely spaced parallel veins and hairy margins.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in dense, spike-like racemes from upper leaf axils; bi-colored pink and white; with typical pea-flower shape, including a large, round, erect "banner" petal with darker pinkish-purple markings.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, flattened, broadly oval pod with a short beak and covered at the base by the persistent calyx; contains a single seed.

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