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Photographer: Stephen L. Solheim
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Family Fabaceae
Strophostyles helvula (L.) Elliott
annual woolly bean, trailing fuzzy bean, trailing wild bean
Strophostyles: from strophe for "a turning" and stylos for "a style"
helvula: yellowish
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | twining, annual, up to 40" long, herbaceous vine |
| Flower: | pink to purple, 5-parted, 1/2" long; inflorescence a loose, long-stalked head of stalkless flowers |
| Fruit: | 1 1/2"-3 1/2" long, rounded pod coiling when open; several woolly seeds |
| Leaf: | mostly smooth, stalked, oval, 1/2"-3" long, 3-parted, some with side lobes |
| Habitat: | dry; in sandy soil and cinders |
| (Glossary) |
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