General: Annual herb from a taproot; stems several, erect or ascending, 20-50 cm tall, short-hairy or glabrous.
Leaves: Alternate, palmately compound; leaflets 3, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, 1-3 cm long, fine-toothed along upper half; stipules lanceolate, 10-18 mm long, joined to the leaf-stalk for about 2/3 their length, the free tips long-pointed.
Flowers: Inflorescence a dense, egg-shaped, axillary head of 30 to 100 drooping, pea-like flowers, the heads 1-1.5 cm wide, lacking an involucre; corollas 5-7 mm long, yellow, the banner somewhat flared and spreading, much longer than the wings and keel; calyces about 1/2 as long as the corollas, 5-veined, usually glabrous, the upper pair of teeth 1/2 as long as the lower 3.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)