General:
Perennial herb from a taproot and branching stem-base covered with persistent straw-coloured stipules; branches loosely tufted, often elongate, 2-9 cm long.

Leaves:
Basal, odd-pinnately compound, 2-9 cm long; leaflets 9 to 13, lanceolate to elliptic, 4-13 mm long, slightly white-hairy to glabrous; stipules about as long as the leaflets, with elliptic, blunt lobes, the margins fringed with black hairs.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a compact cluster of 1 to 5 pea-like flowers, the raceme-stalk 2-8 cm long, erect to ascending, and purplish under a cover of short white hairs; corollas purple, 12-17 mm long; calyces bell-shaped, densely black-hairy, the tube 4-6 mm long, the linear-lanceolate teeth about 1/2 as long as the tube.

Fruits:
Pods, oblong-ellipsoid, membranous, 11-18 mm long, unstalked, erect, black-hairy, more or less 1-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