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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Fabaceae
Strophostyles leiosperma (Torr. & A.Gray) Piper
slick-seed fuzzy bean, small-flowered wild bean
Strophostyles: from strophe for "a turning" and stylos for "a style"
leiosperma: leios for "smooth;" sperma for "seed"
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | twining, annual, herbaceous vine |
| Flower: | 5-parted, 1/4" long; inflorescence a loose, long-stalked head of stalkless flowers |
| Fruit: | 1/2"-1" long pod coiling when open; several woolly seeds |
| Leaf: | densely hairy, stalked, oblong to lance-shaped, 1/2"-3" long, 3-parted |
| Habitat: | dry to moist; shores, dunes, woods; in sandy soil |
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