Intro: Mostly prostrate perennial that usually acts like a vine, trailing over the ground and other plants; found in sandhill woodlands and sandy clearings of the Coastal Plain.

Stems: Stems angle-ribbed, furry with tawny hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of lance-shaped stipules at base, (mostly) divided into 3 smooth to hairy, broadly oval to nearly round leaflets with conspicuous netted veins and inconspicuous resinous dots.

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Flowers: Flowers in stalked racemes from leaf axils, yellow (sometimes with red or purple streaks), nearly 1/2 in. long, with typical pea-flower shape and a hairy, tubular calyx.

Fruits: Fruit a hairy, broad pod with hooked beak.

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Height: 3-6 ft.

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description: Mostly prostrate perennial that usually acts like a vine, trailing over the ground and other plants; found in sandhill woodlands and sandy clearings of the Coastal Plain.

stems: Stems angle-ribbed, furry with tawny hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of lance-shaped stipules at base, (mostly) divided into 3 smooth to hairy, broadly oval to nearly round leaflets with conspicuous netted veins and inconspicuous resinous dots.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in stalked racemes from leaf axils, yellow (sometimes with red or purple streaks), nearly 1/2 in. long, with typical pea-flower shape and a hairy, tubular calyx.

fruits: Fruit a hairy, broad pod with hooked beak.

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