This clover is able to thrive on very dry and sandy soils, primarily in the eastern half of North America. It is an annual with many branches, that grows from six inches to a foot in height. The plant is slender, erect and covered with very fine, silky, gray hairs. Leaves are composed of three long, narrow leaflets and they are attached to the spreading branches by short stems. Long, pointed paper-thin stipules cover this junction. The white to pinkish flowers are in dense cylindrical clusters a half inch in length. Rabbit-foot clover seeds heavily and spreads rapidly in the right environment.