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Crown Vetch
Coronilla varia		  
Family Bean  (Fabaceae)
Bloom Summer
Habitat Sunny, roadsides, disturbed areas
Status Non-Native
Cycle Perennial
Height 1-2 feet
Flower Round clusters of clover-like bicolored (pink & white) flowers on long stalks that arise from leaf axils.
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 leaf stalk is hairy and shaped like half an arrowhead.
Notes Stems are fuzzy, reclining or prostrate.  Fruit is an elongated, flat pod.
 

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