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, yellow. Flowers, papilionaceous, large, single or in pairs, in the axils, on long pedicels, making loose, leafy racemes. Style, long, projecting, incurved. Leaves, 3-foliate, small, smooth, sometimes simple.
A stiff, much-branched shrub, 3 to 4 feet high, found in sandy soil from Massachusetts to Virginia, southward.
 
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