General:
Perennial herb from taproot and branching stem-base, which is often covered with disintegrated stipules; densely tufted, 5-30 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal, odd-pinnately compound, 3-30 cm long; leaflets 7 to 35 or more, lance-elliptic to oblong, silky or appressed-hairy on both surfaces to nearly glabrous above, 5-30 mm long; stipules membranous, 5-15 mm long, fringed with long hairs along the edges and long-hairy on the lower surface.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a spike-like to head-like raceme of 5 to 30 pea-like flowers, the raceme-stalks spreading to erect, to 30 cm long; corollas white to yellowish, sometimes tinged with purple, 10-18 mm long; calyces cylindrical, with mixed grey and black hairs, the triangular to linear teeth 1-3 mm long.

Fruits:
Pods, oblong-ellipsoid, erect to spreading, membranous, short-hairy, 1-2.5 cm long, almost 2-chambered, the beak 5 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Oxytropis jordalii subsp. davisii (S.L. Welsh) Elisens & Packer