Herbs, perennial, pale green, 30-40 cm tall, with large taproot and 1-to many-headed rootstock. Stems simple or branched. Basal leaves 10-15 cm, long petiolate; blade ca. equal to petiole, broadly ovate, pinnate with usually 2 pairs of stalked leaflets; leaflets orbicular to ovate, 2-4 × 2-3 cm, unequally 2-or 3-divided or margin with broad rounded teeth. Raceme 7-18 cm, many flowered, at first dense, then lax; bracts ovate to lanceolate, entire, lower ca. 15 × 10 mm; upper smaller, attenuate, longer than pedicels. Pedicel 3-5 mm. Flowers yellow to golden yellow. Sepals orbicular, 0.5-2 mm, entire. Outer petals rather broad and acuminate at apex, with a high short crest abruptly terminating ca. 2 mm from apex; upper petal 23-26 mm; spur ca. 7 mm, obtuse; nectary extended through ca. 1/2 of spur; lower petal straight, 18-22 mm; inner petals 14-18 mm, with rounded dorsal crest extending shortly beyond apex. Stigma arms forward-arcuate, each with 2 indistinct papillae at apex. Capsule reflexed, linear, ca. 25 × 1.5 mm. Seeds in 1 row. Fl. and fr. May-Jul.
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