General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems mostly erect or ascending, 10-50 cm tall, few-branched, finely short-hairy.

Leaves:
Alternate, pinnately compound; leaflets 3 or 4, two at the tip of the flattened axis and 1 or 2 on one side, elliptic to egg-shaped, 1-2 cm long, short-hairy, the margins fine-toothed; stipules tiny, gland-like.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of single, nearly stalkless, axillary pea-like flowers; corollas 4-8 mm long, creamy-white with a purplish-tipped banner; calyces short-soft-hairy to glabrous, 3-5 mm long, the linear teeth twice as long as the brown-mottled tube.

Fruits:
Pods, broadly oblong, 8-15 mm long, appressed soft-hairy, not constricted between the seeds; seeds 2 to 4, grey, flattened, 2.5-4 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Lotus denticulatus (E. Drew) Greene