Racemes sometimes dense at first, usually elongating, (1)3–15 cm long, 8–40-flowered, later developed on numerous fairly short flowering branches, sometimes a few flowers also in the axils; bracts 1–2 mm long, generally subulate; bracteoles on the pedicel, setaceous.
Standard elliptic, yellow, lined or flushed reddish, apically pubescent outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel 9–12 mm long, angular, with a narrow twisted beak slightly incurved at the tip.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 8–20(30) × 2–9(13) mm, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, ± shortly appressed hairy beneath, almost always glabrous above; petiole 3–15(25) mm long; stipules 0.
Calyx 4–6 mm long, appressed pubescent; upper lobes attenuately or acuminately triangular, (1)1.5–2.5 times as long as the tube.
Pods sessile, obliquely inserted, 7–8 × 5–5.5 mm, shortly cylindrical when ripe, appressed pubescent, 6–12-seeded.
Erect well-branched annual or short-lived perennial, 0.3–2 m tall; branches generally with short appressed hairs.
Seeds 1.5–2 mm long, rounded-cordiform, smooth.