This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Pulse. Color, deep rose. Flowers, large, with papilionaceous corolla, in drooping axillary racemes, showy in this species, not fragrant. Leaves, pinnate, with one odd leaflet.
A shrub from 3 to 8 feet high, indigenous south of Virginia, cultivated in the Northern States.
 
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