Herbs, annual or biennial, brownish hirsute or pilose, hairs long-spreading. Stems erect or sprawling, unbranched or branched, 3–10 dm. Leaves 4–12.5 cm; stipules narrowly subulate, 10–13 mm; petiole 0.8–1.2 cm; stipels 1–3 mm; petiolules 1.5–2 mm; leaflets 3–7(or 9), opposite, blades elliptic to obovate, 15–60 × 7–25 mm, base cuneate, apex rounded, short-mucronate, surfaces pubescent. Peduncles 4–9 cm. Racemes 10–20+-flowered, dense, 6–20 cm. Pedicels 1–2 mm. Flowers 6–7 mm; calyx 3.5–5 mm, lobes setaceous, bristly-plumose; corolla salmon red to maroon. Legumes dark brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 15–22 mm, leathery, hispid. Seeds 6–8, greenish, cuboid. 2n = 16.

Phenology: Flowering year-round.
Habitat: Roadsides, old fields, disturbed woodlands, urban waste areas.
Elevation: 0–50 m.

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Introduced; Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., S.C., se Asia, Africa, introduced also in Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca, Tabasco), West Indies (Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico), South America (Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela), Pacific Islands, Australia.

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