Plants strongly caulescent; stems dolabriform pubescent, prostrate, 1-1.5(-2) dm long; leaves 5-14 cm long; leaflets mostly 11-19, obovate or elliptic, 5-15 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; stipules lower connate; inflorescences subumbels with 9-12 ascending or spreading, narrow flowers; flowers pea-like; calyx tube cylindric, often dark-pigmented, mostly 6-9 mm long, corolla pink-purple, wing petal tips white; fruit ascending, divergent or humistrate, sessile, unilocular or subunilocular, persistent, dorsiventrally compressed at maturity, mostly 12-25 mm long, 6-9 mm wide, fleshy, often dull-reddish. Flowers in May.