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Perennial herb. Stems procumbent, branches up to 1 m long. Leaves of lateral branches usually smaller than primary leaves; trifoliolate; leaflet blade obovate, margins dentate; stipules triangular. Flowers: small, corolla 5.5-7.5 mm long, pink; flowering and fruiting all year round following sufficient rains. Pods elliptic with dense white hairs, base of style persistent as a beak, up to 0.5 mm long.
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets 3–30× 2–20 mm, obovate or elliptic, obtuse at the apex, plicate, with margin slightly dentate to lobulate-crenate, glandular, thinly grey pubescent; petioles 0.5–7 cm long; stipules 2.5–3.5 × 1.25–2 mm, triangular to ovate, ciliate and grey pubescent.
Herb up to 60 cm tall, often mat-or cushion-forming, white strigose or grey hairy but eventually ± glabrous; branches many, pale, up to 75 cm long (up to 9 m fide Forbes), widely spreading prostrate to ascending from a much branched rootstock.
Corolla white and blue or pink; standard 3–5(7) × 3–4.5 mm with claw 1–2 mm long, ± obovate; wings 3–4.5 × 1–2 mm, with a linear claw 1.5–4 mm long; keel 2–3 × 1.5 mm with linear claw 2–2.5 mm long.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It is covered with white hairs. The leaves have 3 leaflets and teeth around the edge. Flowers occur in groups of three. The fruit are small oval pods.
Calyx tube 1.5–3 mm long; lobes unequal, lanceolate to ovate, ciliate, hairy outside, pilose inside, the upper 1–2 × 0.5–1 mm, the lowest, 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm.
Inflorescences spicate or subcapitate with 3–8 flowers; peduncle 5–28 mm long; rhachis 3–27 mm long with 1–6 nodes; pedicels very short.
Spreading, mat-forming shrublet with soft stems to 1 m long. Leaves 3-foliolate, clover-like, leaflets obovate. Flowers purple, mauve.
Fruit 3.8–5 × 2.5–3 × 1.75–2.5 mm, oblong-reniform, densely white hairy and glandular.
