This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Color, pink, with a purplish tinge, fading to yellowish. Much like the last, with slenderer stems, 1 to 5 feet long, downy with soft hairs. Leaves, divided into 3 leaflets, on short petioles with minute stipules. Flowers, in a head on long peduncles. Prostrate, not climbing. July to September.
New Jersey and Long Island, south to Florida, west to Louisiana.
 
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