Crotalaria ochroleuca G. Don

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Val D'Or

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Frequency:	Common
Status:	Native
Description:	Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to 2.5 m. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear to linear-lanceolate with appressed hairs on the under surface. Flowers in long laxly-flowered racemes, pale yellow-cream, veined with maroon. The keel with a long projecting beak. Pod broadly cylindric with short appressed hairs.
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Habitat:	In damp grass, rivers, floodplain, vleis and road sides. Occasionally as a weed of cultivation.
Altitude range: (metres)	Up to 1750 m
Flowering time:	Mar - Apr
Worldwide distribution:
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,W,C,E
Growth form:	AP
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Content last updated:	Sunday 4 June 2006
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