Stems herbaceous, erect or spreading, much branched, to 6 dm, glabrous, puberulent, or densely hispid. Leaves: stipular sheath 8–15-veined, glabrous or puberulent to densely hispid, teeth of distal stipules mostly shorter than sheath; petiole 1–3 mm; leaflet blades ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, 40–20 mm, veins 3–6 pairs, base cuneate, margins sometimes spinulose, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces sometimes punctate abaxially, glabrous. Inflorescences 1–8-flowered, ovoid, to 1 cm, axis rudiment absent; bracts usually 1-foliolate, sometimes 3-foliolate proximally, 3–6 × 2.5–5.5 mm, 5–9-veined, puberulent to densely hispid; outer bracteole 2–3 mm, apex glabrous or ciliate; inner bracteole 1, 1–2.5 mm, apex glabrous or ciliate. Flowers: calyx tube 2.5–5 mm, lobes ± acute; corolla yellow or orange-yellow; banner suborbiculate, 4.5–7 mm; wings 3.5–4.5 mm; keel 3–4 mm. Loments strongly reticulate with vertical veins, 2.5–3 mm wide; fertile segment 1; proximal segment sterile; distal segment 2.5–5 mm, puberulent; beak hooked, 0.5–1 mm, to 1/5 distal seg­ment. Seeds 1–1.5 mm.

Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Dry, open, rocky or sandy wood­lands, borders, barrens, moist pine savannas, old fields, roadsides.
Elevation: 0–1000 m.

Distribution

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Ala., Ariz., Ark., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Md., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va., Wis., Mexico.

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