General:
Perennial herb from a thick stem-base and taproot; stems several, erect to spreading, 20-60 cm tall, usually branched above, sparsely short-stiff-hairy, greenish, shallowly grooved.

Leaves:
Alternate, odd-pinnate, sparsely hairy below, glabrous but minutely glandular above, stalked, 8-20 cm long; leaflets 9 to 17, elliptic to egg-shaped, conspicuously veined, abruptly sharp-pointed at the tip, 15-30 mm long, 5-10 mm wide; stipules brown, membranous, joined or free, 10-15 mm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an axillary raceme of 20 to 100 pea-like, nodding flowers; corollas yellow to whitish, 14-18 mm long, the wing-lobes slender and nearly equalling the claw; calyces 3-4 mm long, the teeth shorter than the tube, the upper pair of teeth wider and shorter than the lower three.

Fruits:
Pods, constricted between the seeds into (1) 2 to 4 segments, the segments asymmetrically elliptic, 6-10 mm wide, irregularly net-veined, narrowly wing-margined.

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:
Late Spring

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

Source:  The USDA