E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb from a branching stem-base densely covered with old, brownish leaf-stalks and stipules; tufted, to 15 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal, odd-pinnately compound, 3-14 cm long; leaflets 9 to 21, egg-shaped to lance-oblong, 3-15 mm long, sparsely soft-hairy; stipules 12-20 mm long, long-tailed at the tip, becoming brown with age, fused and joined to the leaf-stalk below, the free margins fringed with long hairs.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a somewhat head-like raceme of 5 to 12 pea-like flowers, the racemes 1-4 cm long on erect to ascending stalks 4-15 cm long; corollas yellow to whitish, 13-17 mm long; calyces short-cylindric, woolly with dark and light hairs, the tube 5-6 mm long, the teeth 1.5-3 mm long.

Fruits:
Pods, egg-shaped to ellipsoid, abruptly beaked, 1.5-2.5 cm long, soft-hairy, incompletely 2-chambered.