Intro: Very tall and shrubby, erect annual of marshes, ditches and other disturbed wet areas.

Stems: Stems with mostly horizontal branches, light green turning woody and silky-hairy turning smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, 4-8 in. long and pinnately divided into 10-20 pairs of oblong leaflets with bluntly rounded ends bearing a short, pointy tooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in drooping spikes (4 in. long) from upper leaf axils, yellowish to orange, about 3/4 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, the 2-lobed banner petal often with a sunburst pattern at the base.

Fruits: Fruit a flattened, usually 2-seeded pod with needle-like tip.

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Height: 6-10 ft.

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description: Very tall and shrubby, erect annual of marshes, ditches and other disturbed wet areas.

stems: Stems with mostly horizontal branches, light green turning woody and silky-hairy turning smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, 4-8 in. long and pinnately divided into 10-20 pairs of oblong leaflets with bluntly rounded ends bearing a short, pointy tooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in drooping spikes (4 in. long) from upper leaf axils, yellowish to orange, about 3/4 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, the 2-lobed banner petal often with a sunburst pattern at the base.

fruits: Fruit a flattened, usually 2-seeded pod with needle-like tip.

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