Plants 5-20 cm tall, with appressed hairs 0.1-0.3 mm. Stems prostrate to ascending. Leaves 3-6 cm; stipules 3-4 mm, ovate, connate behind stem to middle; leaflets in 5-8 pairs, obovate, 4-7 × 1.5-4 mm, abaxially sparsely covered with appressed white hairs, adaxially glabrous. Racemes 3-5-flowered; peduncle 1.5-6 cm, sparsely black hairy; bracts narrowly triangular-subulate, 1.5-3 mm. Calyx 4-5 mm, black hairy; teeth 1.5-2 mm. Petals red or blue; standard obovate, 10-12 mm; wings slightly shorter than standard; keel slightly longer than wings. Ovary stipitate, glabrous. Legumes shortly stipitate, narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, ca. 10 mm, 1-locular; valves glabrous.