A low, wiry and shrubby, glabrous or puberulous herb of 1 ft. or under, with numerous diffuse or decumbent sometimes elongate branches, from a much divided root-stock. Leaves rather thick, linear or oblanceolate-linear, pointed or obtuse and mucronulate or sometimes emarginate, narrowed to the base, glabrous, sessile or subsessile, 1/4–1 in. long, 1/10– 1/5 in. wide. Flowers in loose terminal or extra-axillary racemes, sometimes 2–3 in. long, often very short or flowers solitary. Bracts very early deciduous; pedicels 1/4 in. or less, after flowering sharply reflexed or patent, thickened upwards into the outer sepals, the anterior of which are connate and 2-fid. Wing-sepals greenish, elliptical, narrowed below with 3 principal nerves. Lateral petals obovate-cuneate, nearly equalling the keel. Capsule quadrate-elliptical, emarginate, not winged, glabrous. Seeds pubescent.
