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Mimosa, Albizia julibrissin
Legume pods are flat with bulging seeds, per Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests.
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Eastern Sensitive-briar, Mimosa microphylla
Fruits are conspicuously prickly, quadrangular, dehiscent legumes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata
Legume oblong, flat, hairy or smooth, at maturity splitting, springing open, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Common Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata
Dehiscent legumes, smooth to densely hairy, up to 3" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Sensitive-plant, Chamaecrista nictitans var. nictitans
Dehiscent legumes, densely short-hairy, up to 2" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Honey Locust, Gleditsia triacanthos
Fruit a brown legume 6-18" long containing a sticky sugar-rich pulp, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge.
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Kentucky Coffee-tree, Gymnocladus dioicus
Fruit a brown legume 3-7" long, with large hard rounded seed, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge.
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Horsefly Weed, Baptisia tinctoria
Legume glabrous, subglobose to ovoid, body 7-9mm long, 6-8mm in diameter, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Aaron's Rod, Thermopsis villosa
Legumes closely pressed against the rachis, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Ash-leaf Golden-banner, Thermopsis fraxinifolia
Legumes flattened, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Ash-leaf Golden-banner, Thermopsis fraxinifolia
Legumes spreading or at least not strictly erect, on a short stalk, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Spotted Medick, Medicago arabica
Legume spirally coiled with a double row of curved spines 2-3mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Leadplant, Amorpha herbacea var. herbacea
Legume pustulate-glandular, densely to moderately short-pubescent, 4-6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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False Indigo, Amorpha fruticosa
Fruit a 1 or 2-seeded, 1/4", curved, glabrous legume, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge.
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Woodland Tick-trefoil, Hylodesmum nudiflorum
Legume (loment) straight across one edge and scalloped along the other, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Bicolor Lespedeza, Lespedeza bicolor
Legume broadly elliptic, 6-8 mm long, tapering to both ends, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Bicolor Lespedeza, Lespedeza bicolor
Lespedeza legumes are one-seeded, indehiscent, and flattened, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Velvety Lespedeza, Lespedeza stuevei
Calyx lobes shorter than fruit; legumes elliptic to ovate, notably reticulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Sericea Lespedeza, Lespedeza cuneata
Flat single-seeded legume pod, 3-4mm wide, clasped by persistent sepals, per Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests.
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Hairy Bush-clover, Lespedeza hirta +
Legume 5-8mm long, shorter than the lobes of the long calyx, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Chinese Wisteria, Wisteria sinensis
Legume 10-15cm long and densely velvety pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Virginia Goat's Rue, Tephrosia virginiana
Densely hairy, dehiscent legumes, 2.5-3" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Spiked Hoarypea, Tephrosia spicata
Legume 3-5cm long, 4-6mm broad, sparesly to moderately pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Narrowleaf Vetch, Vicia sativa ssp. nigra
Legume almost terete, not constricted between the subglobose seeds, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Smooth Vetch, Vicia villosa ssp. varia
Legume oblong, 2-4cm long, 7-10mm broad, compressed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Slender Vetch, Vicia tetrasperma
Legume symmetrically rounded at the apex, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Groundnut, Apios americana
Fruit: Many-seeded linear legumes, 2-4" long, about 0.25" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Climbing Butterfly-pea, Centrosema virginianum
Legume flattened, 7-14cm, with an elongate, persistent, beak-like style, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Butterfly-pea, Clitoria mariana var. mariana
Fruit a 1-2.5" legume, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Wild Bean, Phaseolus polystachios
Legume stipitate, 3-8cm long, 8-10mm broad, somewhat curved, glabrous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Trailing Wild Bean, Strophostyles helvola
Legume (3.5)5-10cm long, 5-8mm broad, sparsely appressed-pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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American Hog-peanut, Amphicarpaea bracteata +
Legume from petaliferous flowers is flattened, olong-linear, 1.5-4cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.