Family | Pea or Bean (Fabaceae) |
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Bloom | Late spring, summer |
Habitat | Sun, meadows |
Status | Non-Native |
Cycle | Perennial |
Height | 2-3′ |
Flower | Tightly packed clusters of miniature pea flowers stung along one side of the flowering spike. Color is lavender to blue-violet. It is bi-colored. |
Leaf | Leaves are pinnately compound with 10-20 fuzzy leaflets. The central fuzzy leafstalk terminates in a thread-like tendril that may be branched. A pair of stipulates at the base of the leafstalk is hairy and shaped like half an arrowhead. |
Notes | Stems are fuzzy, upright to reclining and fruit is a flat, elongated pod. |