Plant Description:

• A highly noticeable, prairie legume growing up to 50 cm high
• Leaves in three's and are covered by soft gray hairs
• Bright yellow flowers in loose spikes that bloom early in the season
• Gives the milk an odd taste and smell if consumed by cows
• Children can get very sick from eating the fruit
• Found in ditches and on dry slopes
• Found at Stop 2

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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