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Tephrosia virginiana

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The flowers look similar to other flowers in the pea family and are bi-colored, with a pale yellow or cream upper petal (the standard), and pink petals on the bottom (the keel and wings). The flowers are grouped into clusters at the top of the stems and bloom from May to August. The seed pods that
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Peterson, Lee. (1977) A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. p. 82.
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women used to wash their hair in a decoction made from its roots to prevent their hair from breaking or falling out.
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The roots are long and stringy, which is probably the source of the common names catgut and devil's shoestrings.
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is low and bushy, growing to 60 centimetres (2 ft), but more often shorter. Its leaves are alternate and
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because of the relationship it has with the acid soil it needs, this plant can be found in sand
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form after the flowers bloom are small, approximately 5 centimetres (2 in) long.
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NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer
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Zhang, Peiwen; Qin, Deqiang; Chen, Jianjun; Zhang, Zhixiang (21 October 2020).
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This plant prefers acidic soils, in part to full sun. It grows throughout the
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has been listed as an endangered species in Canada under Schedule 1 of the
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Fabales
Fabaceae
Faboideae
Tephrosia
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perennial
dicot
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Fabaceae
subshrub
compound
Midwest
New England
southeastern United States
propagate
savannas
rotenone

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