General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems prostrate to creeping and often rooting at the nodes, hairy.

Leaves:
Alternate or clustered, palmately compound; leaflets 3, egg- to heart-shaped, rounded and notched at the tip, 10-15 mm long; stipules wide, tapered.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a dense, rather long-stalked bur-like head, about 1 cm wide, of several to many pea-like flowers, the outer flowers 2 to 8 and fertile, the inner numerous and sterile, the heads lacking involucres, on rather long stalks that in fruit curve and grow into the ground; corollas white or cream-coloured to pinkish, 8-13 mm long; fertile calyces 5-6 mm long, 1/2 as long as the corollas, the teeth long, hairy, bristle-like; sterile calyces stalk-like with 4-5 spreading bristles at the tip, elongating and curving backward to envelop the fruits and form a bur.

Fruits:
Pods; seeds 1.

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

Flower Colour:
White

Blooming Period:
Late Winter

Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Blue
Present over the Spring

Source:  The USDA