dwarf, erect or ascending, the stems, petioles and peduncles roughly hairy with rusty hairs; petioles very short, leaflets 3, oblong, obtuse, rugose, hispid above, rufo-tomentose and penninerved beneath; stipules oblong-acute; peduncles elongate, shortly and closely several-flowered near the summit; calyx hairy, its lobes longer than the tube, much shorter than the villous vexillum. Stems 6–8 inches high. Common petiole 3–4 lines long. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 inches long, 1/2– 3/4 inch wide, at length subglabrous above, always densely and softly pubescent beneath. Stipules equalling the petiole. Peduncles 4–6 inches long, the 8–10 flowered raceme 1–1 1/2 inch long. Bracts subulate or narrow lanceolate. Flowers sub-sessile, 5–6 lines long, spreading (not reflexed). Calyx-tube 1 1/2 lines long. Vexillum pubescent, about equalling the incurved, subrostrate carina. Legume 7–8 lines long, 4–5 broad, coriaceous, with long, foxy hairs. Allied to E. cordata, but differs in the form and size of the leaves, the softer and shorter pubescence, longer peduncles and not reflexed flowers, &c. It is in all parts smaller.
