General:
Perennial herb from a strong taproot and branching stem-base; tufted, to 25 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal, odd-pinnately compound, 3-25 cm long; leaflets 15 to 51, not whorled, lanceolate to lance-oblong, 5-22 mm long, short-hairy to glabrous, often sticky-glandular and warty; stipules 5-20 mm long, membranous, joined to the leaf-stalk for over 1/2 their length, the free part triangular to long-tailed, often glandular, the margins fringed with long hairs.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a spike-like raceme, 2-7 cm long, of 6 to 30 pea-like flowers, the raceme-stalks ascending, 5-25 cm long; corollas yellowish or white or pink-purple, 12-15 mm long; calyces cylindric, about 2/3 the length of the corollas, long-soft-hairy with pale and dark hairs, the teeth linear, glandular-warty, about 1/2 as long as the tube.

Fruits:
Pods, oblong-ellipsoid, 10-17 mm long including the slender beak, papery, dark-hairy and glandular-warty, partially 2-chambered.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Oxytropis viscida Nutt. ex T. & G.