General:
Low perennial herb from a stout taproot and branching stem-base covered with persistent leaf-stalks and stipules; tufted, 5-25 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal, odd-pinnately compound, 5-30 cm long; leaflets 11 to 21, oval to lance-oblong, 7-30 mm long, grey or silvery silky-hairy on both surfaces; stipules membranous, about as long as the leaflets, joined to the leaf-stalks for 1/2 of their length, long-hairy to glabrous on the back, the margins fringed with bristly hairs.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a spike-like raceme 2-10 cm long, elongating in age, of 5 to 25 pea-like flowers, the raceme-stalks stout, erect, 7-25 cm long; corollas whitish to pale yellow, sometimes pinkish-tinged, 15-25 mm long; calyces cylindric, silky with dark and pale hairs, 9-13 mm long, the linear-lanceolate teeth about 1/2 as long as the tube.

Fruits:
Pods, oblong, 15-25 mm long, erect, short-beaked, fleshy when green but bony when dry, short-hairy, nearly 2-chambered.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia