Distribution: Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; widely distributed across most of North America.

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, wastelots, and other disturbed open areas at low to middle elevations.

Flowers: May-October

Origin: Introduced from Eurasia

Growth Duration: Annual, Biennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Generalist

Sparsely puberulent to glabrous annual or biennial, the upright stems 0.5-3 m. tall, freely-branched above.

Leaves alternate, trifoliate, the leaflets oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, serrate-dentate almost to the base; stipules linear, partially attached to the petiole.

Inflorescence of numerous, axillary, spike-like, bracteate racemes 4-12 cm. long; bractlets 2 mm. long; flowers pea-like, white, 2 mm. long; calyx narrowly bell-shaped, the 5 teeth broadly awl-shaped, equal.

Inflorescence of numerous, axillary, spike-like, bracteate racemes 4-12 cm. long; bractlets 2 mm. long; flowers pea-like, white, 2 mm. long; calyx narrowly bell-shaped, the 5 teeth broadly awl-shaped, equal.