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General:
Perennial herb from a buried stem-base and its rhizome-like branches; stems solitary or few together, erect to ascending, 5-30 cm tall, unbranched, long-soft-hairy with unbranched hairs.
Leaves:
Alternate, pinnately compound, 4-12 cm long; leaflets 7 to 13, oblong to elliptic, 1-3 cm long, blunt to rounded at the tip, dark green and glabrous above, sparsely white-hairy below; stipules leafy, narrowly egg-shaped, 7-15 mm long, the lowest fused and sheathing, the upper free but also sheathing at the base.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a short (1-5 cm long), compact, axillary, umbel-like raceme of 5 to 11 nodding, pea-like flowers, the raceme-stalks 3-9 cm long; corollas yellow to cream with white margins, sometimes purple-tinged, the wings slightly shorter than the banner and longer than the keel; calyces cylindric, greenish-yellow drying brown, sparsely black long-hairy, the tube 6-8 mm long, the triangular teeth less than 1 mm long.
Fruits:
Pods, lance-ellipsoid to egg-shaped, 20-25 mm long including the 5- to 7-mm long stalk, drooping, black soft-hairy, somewhat inflated, 1-chambered.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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