General:
Annual herb from fibrous roots; stems 1 to several, decumbent to erect, 10-70 cm long, long wavy-hairy.

Leaves:
Alternate, palmately compound; leaflets 3, wedge-egg-shaped, notched at the tip, 1-2.5 cm long; stipules egg-shaped, sometimes bristle-tipped, fine-toothed, green, 1/2 as long as the leaflets.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a dense, globe-shaped, long-stalked head, 5-10 mm wide, of 7 to 60 pea-like flowers, the heads set in long-hairy, cup-shaped, lobe-margined involucres, the lobes papery-edged and mostly not toothed but bristle-tipped; corollas pink to white, brown in age, 3-6 mm long; calyces hairy, 4-7 mm long, the awl-shaped teeth bristle-tipped, equalling or longer than the 10-veined tube and the lower teeth often surpassing the corolla.

Fruits:
Pods, egg-shaped to ellipsoid, 2-3 mm long, usually rupturing the calyces at maturity; seeds 1 or 2.

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