Annual or biennial herb with woody rootstock; stem 30-50 cm long, trailing, often with long, pubescent branches, slender, diffused, sparingly strigose, silvery-white, thinly hoary, appressed hairs; leaves imparipinnate, 5-9 foliolate, oblanceolate, sessile or subsessile; stipules ovate, cuspidate, scarious or setaceous; leaflets alternate, small, firm, linear-oblanceolate, obovate, retuse or mucronate; pubescent on both surfaces; stipules minute, setaceous; flowers in dense axillary, sessile or subsessile racemes or spicate, shortly peduncled, 10-15 flowered; calyx hoary, pubescent, teeth linear, longer than the tube, setaceous; corolla bright red or pink, slightly exserted; standard ovate, keel straight, not rostrate, spurred on each side near the base; pods oblong to subovoid, cylindrical, straight, thinly hoary, slightly exserted; seeds 2, yellow.