General:
Perennial herb from a taproot and branching stem-base; stems spreading to ascending, 25- 90 cm long, slender, wiry, often branched, glabrous or sparsely appressed-hairy at the nodes.

Leaves:
Alternate, unstalked, pinnately compound; leaflets 5, unstalked, linear-lanceolate to narrowly egg-shaped, tapering to a pointed tip, the lowest pair of leaflets basal and stipule-like; stipules represented by tiny dark glands.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a compact, stalked, axillary umbel of 4 (to 7) pea-like flowers, the umbel-stalks slender, 4-12 cm long, with a 1- to 3-parted bract below the umbel; corollas yellow, about 10 mm long; calyces about 5 mm long, the awl-shaped teeth usually shorter than the tube.

Fruits:
Pods, narrowly cylindric, 1.5-3 cm long, spreading or nodding, glabrous; seeds up to 20.

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