Plants perennial; pubescence gray-villous, villosulous, or subtomentose, the longer hairs basifixed, the shorter dolabriform; stems prostrate, divaricately branched, 1-5.5 dm long; stipules near base of stem 2.5-8 mm long, fully encircling the stem; leaves 1-5 cm long, with 11-15 narrowly lanceolate to ovate, usually acute leaflets 2-14 mm long; racemes 3-15-flowered, the axis 1-3 cm long in fruit; petals white, or whitish and faintly pink-tinged, banner 7-9.2 mm long, wings slightly shorter than banner, keel 5.1-6.2 mm long, the blade half-ovate and incurved about 90 degrees to the sharply deltoid apex; pods usually lying on ground at maturity, sessile, 1-celled, 8-10 mm long, thinly papery, strigulose-villosulous, lunately half-ellipsoid, incurved through 1/4-1/2 circle, laterally compressed and obscurely 3-sided, low-convex or shallowly grooved dorsally in lower half, carinate ventrally by the suture, cuspidate at apex; ovules 6-9.