Low Prairie Clover

Parosela scandens (Mill.) Rydberg
Psoralea scandens Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Psoralea no. 4. 1768.
A glabrous shrub, with slender, brown branches; leaves 2-4 cm. long, spreading; stipules minute,, subulate; rachis glabrous, sparingly glandular-dotted; stipels glandlike; leaflets 7-9, elliptic or elliptic-oblaneeolate, 8-15 mm. long, glabrous on both sides, conspicuously glandulardotted on the lower side; spikes short, globose or oblong, usually peduncled in the axils of the leaves; bracts ovate, glabrous or puberulent, somewhat glandular-punctate, shorter than the calyx; calyx-tube nearly glabrous, 2.5 mm. long; lobes filiform, plumose, about 5 mm. long; corolla yellow, in age brownish; blade of the banner cordate, 3.5 mm. long; blades of the wings 4 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 5 mm. long, and with a gland near the apex, the claws of both 2-2.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Veracruz.
Distribution: State of Veracruz.