The Showy Tick Trefoil is a native, perennial wildflower. It is slender stemmed and often bushy. It grows two to six feet tall with hundreds of pink to purple, pea-shaped flowers in dense clusters at the top of the stems. The compound leaves consist of three leaflets that are greyish green. The leaflets are two to three inches long and less than half as wide. They are oblong or lance-shaped and rounded at the tips. Their undersides have fine hooked hairs. It grows in full shade woodlands and in full sun, and in disturbed habitat, such as roadsides. (July)