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.