Herbs. Stems usually prostrate, rarely climbing, strigose or villosulous, hairs cinereous, appressed or slightly spreading. Leaves usually trifoliolate, proximalmost sometimes uni­foliolate; stipules persistent, lanceolate-ovate, 2–5 × 1–2 mm, apex acuminate; petiole strigulose; leaflet blades oval to orbiculate-ovate, obovate, or rhombic, 15–35 × 6–50 mm, leathery, gland-dotted, base obtuse or subcordate, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces hirtellous abaxially, rugose and finely strigose adaxially. Inflorescences 1(2 or 3) simple flowers per axil, shorter than leaves, 1–3 cm. Pedicels 1–4 mm. Flowers: calyx 10–12 mm, hirtellous, tube 2 mm, lobes lanceolate, laterals 9–10 mm, lengths 3+ times tube, adaxials 3–3.5 mm; corolla light yellow; banner obovate, 8–11 × 6–8 mm, emarginate, puberulent; wings oblong, 8.5–13 × 2.5–3 mm, glabrous; keel 8–9.5 × 3–4 mm, glabrous; stamens 8–10 mm. Legumes ovoid-oblong, compressed, 13–17 × 6–8 mm, puberulent. Seeds brown, black, or mottled, subglobose, compressed, 2.5–4 × 2–4 mm.

Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat: Sandy soils, pine forests, coastal dunes, waste places, disturbed areas.
Elevation: 0–100 m.

Distribution

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Fla.

Discussion

Rhynchosia cinerea is known from peninsular Florida.

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Lower Taxa

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