Plant: Annual forb 7-15 cm, hairy; stem erect or decumbent Leaves: leaves digitately compound, woolly, generally cauline; petiole 2-7 cm; leaflets 5-9, 10-30 mm, 1.5-8 mm wide, sometimes linear INFLORESCENCE: spike-like raceme, not or barely surpassing the leaves, 1.5-9 cm, often dense; flowers spiraled, generally also in lower leaf axils; peduncle 0-8 cm; bracts 2.5-4 mm, straight, persistent; pedicels 0.7-2 mm Flowers: flowers purple, 5-12 mm; calyx 3-5 mm, 2-lipped, lips ± equal, upper lip deeply lobed; banner spot white or yellowish, banner centrally grooved, sides reflexed, wing tips slightly fused, keel generally glabrous; stamens 10, filaments fused, 5 long with short anthers, 5 short with long anthers; style brushy Fruit: legume, 1-1.5 cm, 3-5 mm wide, hairy, dehiscent, generally oblong; Seeds 3-5, often ± reniform, smooth Misc: Open or disturbed areas, burns; < 1700 m.; Mar-May References: Kearney & Peebles; Arizona Flora. McDougall; Seed plants of Northern Arizona. A Utah Flora. Hickman ed.; The Jepson Manual. ASU specimans.