Intro: Erect, non-native annual of fields, roadsides and disturbed areas. Native of s. Asia.

Stems: Stems coarse, ribbed, green or purplish, covered with stiff, sharp hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate; sessile and with persistent, lance-shaped stipules; oblong-oval (widest at the tip); 2-6 in. long; generally smooth above and densely hairy below.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, yellow, large (1 in. wide), bilaterally symmetric and with a pea-flower shape; the calyx is tubular and there are 2 persistent bracts at the base of the flower.

Fruits: Fruit a smooth, cylindrical pod.

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Height: 1 1/2-6 ft.

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description: Erect, non-native annual of fields, roadsides and disturbed areas. Native of s. Asia.

stems: Stems coarse, ribbed, green or purplish, covered with stiff, sharp hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate; sessile and with persistent, lance-shaped stipules; oblong-oval (widest at the tip); 2-6 in. long; generally smooth above and densely hairy below.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, yellow, large (1 in. wide), bilaterally symmetric and with a pea-flower shape; the calyx is tubular and there are 2 persistent bracts at the base of the flower.

fruits: Fruit a smooth, cylindrical pod.

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