Description ²

• Flower: Purple odd shaped
• Leaves: compound in groups of 4 to 8 pairs, tendril at end of leaf, leaflets narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic may have rounded, blunt or pointed tips. Toothless, hairless, becoming smaller towards the end of the leaf
• Fruit/Seed: pea-shaped pod, 1 inch long, turns from green to reddish brown as it ripens, contains average of 10 seeds
• Height: 1-3 feet, vine
• Flowering: May - September
• Habitat: fields, prairies, open woods, thickets, along roads

Sources and Credits

1. (c) David Greenberger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by David Greenberger
2. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
• CalPhotos
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• OregonFlora.org
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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