Shrubby, erect, densely much branched; branches and twigs terete, roughly tomentose or hirsute; leaves on short petioles, digitately 5-foliolate; leaflets linear-cuneate, obtuse, mucronulate, expanded, strongly midribbed, minutely strigillose on both sides; stipules minute, tooth-like; racemes subsessile, shorter than the leaves, loosely few-flowered; bracts deciduous; calyx canescent, shortly 5-toothed; petals cano-puberulent; legumes terete, short, few seeded, canescent.
Erect, densely hairy, reseeding shrub to 1.5 m, mass flowering. Leaves subdigitately (3-)5-7-foliolate, subsessile; leaflets linear-oblanceolate, minutely hairy, midrib prominent beneath, margins revolute. Flowers in racemes on peduncles shorter than leaves, subsessile, pink or purple, petals persistent, back of standard petal hairy, calyx densely hairy, shortly 5-toothed. Pods grey-hairy, spreading.