Herbs: shoots pubescent, hairs eglandular. Stems prostrate to ascending. Stipules: margins dentate to incised. Leaflets: blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, oval, ovate, or globose, (3–)4–10(–13) × (2.5–)3–7(–10) mm, margins usually serrate, sometimes laciniate or incised, on distal 1/2–3/4. Inflorescences 4–18-flowered, capitate or subumbellate, with stellate flowers, deflexed fruits. Flowers 3.5–5 mm; calyx pubescent, hairs eglan­dular, lobes longer than tube; corolla yellow, slightly longer than calyx. Legumes linear, slightly compressed, 7–15(–25) × 1–2 mm, pubescent or glabrous, margin prickleless; faces with obliquely transverse, anastomos­ing, prominent veins. Seeds 4–10, yellow or yellow-brown, rhomboid-ovoid, 1–1.6 × 0.7–1.1 mm. 2n = 16.

Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat: Fallow fields, roadsides.
Elevation: 0–1000 m.

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Introduced; Ala., Md., Mass., N.Y., s Europe, c Asia, n Africa, introduced also in South America (Argentina, Chile), Australia.

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