Shrub to 1.5 m tall; branchlets usually clothed with short, erect, uncinate hairs and appressed or slightly spreading hairs. Leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate, subsessile. Leaflets petiolulate, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate-oblong; upper surface with numerous erect or uncinate hairs; lower surface usually with scattered, appressed hairs and sometimes with erect or uncinate hairs; central leaflet disproportionately larger than the others, 2.5-9 cm long, 3-7 mm wide; lateral leaflets 0.7-4 cm long, 3-6 mm wide. Racemes 3-18-flowered, mostly shorter than the leaves. Sepals usually 4; outer two 4.8-6.9 mm long, 2-2.9 mm wide, with short, erect, uncinate hairs and longer, appressed hairs. Petals usually 4. Anthers almost equal in length; anthers 2.5-4.5 mm long. Pod 2-2.8 cm long, 10-14 mm wide. Seeds 5-6 mm long, 3.5-4 mm wide.