Perennial herb; stems prostrate, spreading, to 30 cm long, branched, puber-ulent to glabrous. Leaves 2-foliolate; lower leaflets lanceolate to ovate, obtuse to acute, glabrous to sericeous above, sparsely to densely sericeous below, usu-ally punctate, exstipellate; stipules peltate, 3-to 5-nerved, attenuate above, ob-tuse to acute below, usually punctate, glabrous. Inflorescence spicate, congested, several flowered; bracts ovate, acute, ciliate, glabrous to puberulent, punctate, 5-to 7-nerved, ca. 10 mm long, ca. 5 mm wide, attached basally or nearly so, auricle oblique. Flowers yellow. Fruit 2-to 4-articulate, the articles ca. 2 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, reticulate, glabrous or rarely puberulent, the bristles gla-brous or retrorsely hairy, eglandular.
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