herbaceous, slender, prostrate, albo-strigose; stems filiform; leaves pinnate; leaflets 7–11, alternate, obovate or oblong, mucronulate, green and thinly strigillose or glabrous above, albo-strigose beneath; stipules subulate; racemes spicate, densely many flowered, on longish or short peduncles; bracts minute; calyx white, its segments setaceo-subulate; petals hoary; legumes 6–8 seeded, terete, slightly curved or straightish, pendulous, strigose. Root annual? Stems many from the crown, prostrate, flexuous, slightly branched, 6–10 inches long, rather rigid. Pubescence variable, more or less canescent. Upper surface of the leaflets sometimes quite glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigose, and sometimes thinly but equably strigose; never altogether hoary. Peduncles shorter than the leaf, or twice as long. Flowers “pink, shaded with deep crimson, handsome,” E. B. Legumes 5–7 lines long.
