Intro: Erect perennial of dry open forests, woodlands, clearings, old fields and roadsides.

Stems: Stems unbranched, smooth or sparsely hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate; on long petioles with short, linear stipules at the base; divided into 3 oval to nearly round leaflets, each 1/2-1 1/2 in. long and darker green and smooth above and pale and mostly smooth beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers on long stalks in loose racemes, pink, 1/4 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape.

Fruits: Fruit a flattened pod with constrictions between 2-4 seeds, covered with hooked hairs that stick to clothing and fur.

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Height: 2-4 ft.

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description: Erect perennial of dry open forests, woodlands, clearings, old fields and roadsides.

stems: Stems unbranched, smooth or sparsely hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate; on long petioles with short, linear stipules at the base; divided into 3 oval to nearly round leaflets, each 1/2-1 1/2 in. long and darker green and smooth above and pale and mostly smooth beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers on long stalks in loose racemes, pink, 1/4 in. long, bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape.

fruits: Fruit a flattened pod with constrictions between 2-4 seeds, covered with hooked hairs that stick to clothing and fur.

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