General:
Perennial herb from subterranean, rhizome-like branches of a buried stem-base; stems several, erect, 30-70 cm tall, loosely clustered and branched, with short, soft, appressed, unbranched hairs.

Leaves:
Alternate, pinnately compound, nearly unstalked, 5-20 cm long; leaflets 17 to 29, elliptic to oblong, mostly 1-2 cm long, short-appressed-hairy on both surfaces; stipules lanceolate, 2-8 mm long, the lower fused into a sheath, the upper often free.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a dense, axillary raceme of (6) 10 to 30 ascending, pea-like flowers, the racemes 2-6 cm long, on stalks 4-10 cm long; corollas yellowish-white, 10-15 mm long, the almost straight erect banner 1-2 mm longer than the wings which are longer than the blunt keel; calyces usually dark-hairy, 6-9 mm long, the lanceolate teeth 1/3 to 1/2 as long as the bell-shaped tube.

Fruits:
Pods, egg- to globe-shaped, short-stalked, 7-15 mm long, inflated, narrowly beaked at the tip, short stiff-hairy, becoming stiff-papery or somewhat leathery, 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

Flower Colour:
White

Blooming Period:
Early Summer

Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Yellow
Present over the Summer

Source:  The USDA