General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems several, erect or ascending, 20-50 cm tall, short-hairy or glabrous.

Leaves:
Alternate, palmately compound; leaflets 3, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, 1-3 cm long, fine-toothed along upper half; stipules lanceolate, 10-18 mm long, joined to the leaf-stalk for about 2/3 their length, the free tips long-pointed.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a dense, egg-shaped, axillary head of 30 to 100 drooping, pea-like flowers, the heads 1-1.5 cm wide, lacking an involucre; corollas 5-7 mm long, yellow, the banner somewhat flared and spreading, much longer than the wings and keel; calyces about 1/2 as long as the corollas, 5-veined, usually glabrous, the upper pair of teeth 1/2 as long as the lower 3.

Fruits:
Pods, oblong; seeds 1 or 2.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Trifolium agrarium L. p.p.