diffuse or decumbent, loosely hairy in all parts; stipules in pairs, linear or lanceolate, mostly longer than the petiole; leaflets linear or lanceolate, the lower ones narrow-cuneate; peduncles mostly terminal, rather short, umbellate or subracemose, many-flowered; bracts leaflike, lanceolate, longer than the pedicel, or sometimes equalling the flowers; calyx-lobes subulate, longer than the tube; legume turgid, not twice as long as the calyx. Variable in the amount of pubescence; sometimes rather thinly, sometimes very densely hairy or shaggy, with pale or foxy hairs. Leaves thickly set; petiole 1/4– 1/3 inch long; leaflets 1/2– 3/4 inch, sometimes very narrow, not 1/2-line wide, sometimes 1 line. Peduncles 1/2–1 inch, rarely 2 inches long, mostly terminating short, ascending, leafy branches. Bracts, like the leaves, broad or narrow, 1/3– 1/2 inch long. Flowers yellow, generally in umbels, but varying to racemes, on the same root. Pod hairy or glabrescent.
