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Yellow wild indigo, Baptisia tinctoria, is a herbaceous perennial in the legume family native to dry woods, open fields, and prairies in eastern North America. It bears small yellow, pea-shaped flowers and inflated seedpods on branching stems, while its deep root system helps established plants tole...

Wild senna is a tall perennial legume native to eastern North America, commonly classified as Senna hebecarpa or the closely related Senna marilandica. It produces compound leaves, clusters of yellow summer flowers, and elongated seedpods that darken as they mature. The plant grows in prairies, mead...

Partridge pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata, is an annual legume native to much of eastern and central North America. It bears pinnate leaves, yellow summer flowers with reddish markings, and flattened seedpods that split open when mature. Extrafloral nectaries on its leaf stalks attract ants and other...

Showy tick trefoil, Desmodium canadense, is a perennial legume native to much of eastern and central North America. It produces upright stems, compound leaves with three leaflets, and dense clusters of pink to purple pea-shaped flowers during summer. Its jointed seedpods break into individual segmen...

Goat's rue, Tephrosia virginiana, is a perennial legume native to dry, open habitats in eastern and central North America. It has silky compound leaves and dense clusters of bicolored flowers, typically combining pale yellow with pink or purple. Its roots contain rotenone and related compounds that...

Velvet tamarind, Dialium guineense, is a fruit-bearing tropical tree in the legume family Fabaceae native to West Africa. Its small dark fruits have a hard shell and a dry, acidic-sweet pulp around the seed; the pulp is eaten as a wild or market fruit in parts of the region. The species is also know...

Hairy vetch, Vicia villosa, is a vining legume native to Eurasia and widely grown elsewhere as a winter cover crop, green manure, and forage plant. Its root-associated symbiosis fixes atmospheric nitrogen, while its dense growth can protect soil and suppress weeds. It produces purple to violet flowe...

Rabbit-foot clover, Trifolium arvense, is an annual or biennial legume native to Europe and western Asia and now widespread in eastern and Pacific areas of North America. It grows in sunny, dry, often sandy places such as field edges, roadsides, dunes, vineyards, and orchards. Its alternate trifolia...

Alsike clover is the common name for Trifolium hybridum, a perennial legume native to Europe. It was introduced to North America as a forage plant and has since become naturalized in meadows, roadsides, pastures, and other disturbed habitats. The plant produces rounded heads of pale pink to whitish...

Black medick, Medicago lupulina, is a small legume native to Eurasia and now naturalized in many other parts of the world. It usually grows as a low, spreading annual or biennial plant in grassland, roadsides, lawns, and disturbed ground. The plant produces small yellow flower clusters and later for...

White sweet clover is the common name for Melilotus albus, a biennial legume native to Eurasia. It was introduced to North America for forage and as a plant used to increase soil nitrogen, but it has since become naturalized across many regions. The plant produces small white flowers arranged in elo...