WILD H.OWKKS OF M u \ORK 



Hairy Bush Clover 

 Ltspfdfui hirta (Linnaeus) Hornemann 



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Stems rather stiff, erect and usually stout, simple or branched above, 

 densely hairy or softly pubescent, 2 to 5 feet high. Leaflets three, oval 

 or suborbicular. blunt at each end. or often notched at the apex, one-half 

 to 2 inches long; the petioles shorter than the leaflets. Flowers in oblong- 

 cylindric. rather dense heads on stalks which are much longer than the 

 leaves; flowers all complete; corolla yellowish white, usually the standard 

 with a purple spot near its base. Fruiting pod oval, pointed, hairy and 

 about as long as the slender ealyx loU-s. 



In dry or sandy soil. Maine to Ontario and Minnesota, south to 

 Florida. Ixmisiana and Texas. Flowering from August to October. 



The Round-headed Bush Clover (Lespedcza capitata 

 Michaux) is similar but the stalks bearing the flower clusters an- shorter 

 than the leaves, forming a more compact inflorescence. Its range and 

 period of flowering are about the same. 



Beach Pea; Seaside Pea 

 Lathyrns maritinnis (Linnaeus) Bigelow 



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Root perennial, stem glabrous or nearly so, stout, somewhat fleshy 

 and slightly glaucous, angled, decumbent. I to 2 feet long with broad 

 foliaceous, hastate, pointed stipules I to 2 inches long. Ix-aves nearly 

 sessile, pinnate, the rachis terminating in a slender, forked tendril; leaflets 

 six to twelve, oblong, oval or obovate. blunt and mucronulate at the 

 apex, usually narrowed at the base, I to 2| inches long, one-half to 

 three-fourths of an inch wide. Flowers six to ten on peduncles $ to 4 

 inches long, purple, three-fourths to I inch long; calyx teeth often ciliate. 

 Fruit a sessile, linear-oblong, nearly glabrous, veined pod, ij to 3 inches 

 long and about one-half of an inch wide. 



