Photo:  Kimmatsu Lin

Alyce Clover, One-Leaf Clover

Alysicarpus vaginalis

al-liss-ee-KAR-pus  vaj-in-AL-iss

Fabaceae

Native to:  Old World Tropics

Florida abundance and distribution: Naturalized in Florida, Southern United States and the West Indies

Recognition: Stems erect or spreading, up to 1 cm. long, with leaves singular, simple and alternate, ovate to lanceolate, up to 2.5 cm long.  Plants with disproportionately large conspicuous stipules. Flowers in racemes, with 6 to 12 flowers; corolla red, reddish purple, purplish blue or yellow, pods compressed with 4 to 7 segments

Other:  Grown as a forage plant.

Contributed by Andrea Schechter