Showy crotalaria

Description: Annual or perennial herbs with alternate, simple, or divided leaves; flowers yellow on long terminal or axillary clusters, each 5-parted and pea-like; fruit an inflated, subcylindric pod with many seeds
Season: Summer into fall
Height: 6 ft.
Foliage: Stems are green or purplish and become waxy with age; alternate, 2-6 in. leaves widest at the apex and taper to the base; hairy on lower side; short petrioles
Flower: Yellow flowers on elongated racemes; bract at the base