Intro: Erect perennial of overgrown agricultural fields, rocky woodlands and woodland borders and other open, disturbed areas.

Stems: Stems 1-several from a crown, unbranched, smooth to slightly hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with lance-shaped stipules at the base, divided into 3 oval leaflets that are pointed at the tip, bright green above and paler beneath and mostly smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in sparse terminal racemes, pink, 1/4-1/2 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape.

Fruits: Fruit a hairy, flattened pod with constrictions between 3-7 seeds and covered with hooked hairs that stick to clothing and fur.

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Height: 1-4 ft.

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description: Erect perennial of overgrown agricultural fields, rocky woodlands and woodland borders and other open, disturbed areas.

stems: Stems 1-several from a crown, unbranched, smooth to slightly hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with lance-shaped stipules at the base, divided into 3 oval leaflets that are pointed at the tip, bright green above and paler beneath and mostly smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in sparse terminal racemes, pink, 1/4-1/2 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape.

fruits: Fruit a hairy, flattened pod with constrictions between 3-7 seeds and covered with hooked hairs that stick to clothing and fur.

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