Perennial herbs, (20-)40-100(-120) cm. Stems erect or ascending, terete, branchy. Stipules lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, base hastate, apex acuminate; leaflets obovate to linear, (5-)8-15(-20) × (1-)2-5(-10) mm, pubescent abaxially, glabrous or appressed puberulent adaxially, margin serrulate in apical 1/4 or margin 2-or 3-serrate, lateral veins 5-15 pairs, base cuneate, apex rounded, obtuse, or acute, mucronate. Racemes 10-20(-40) mm, with 6-20(-25) flowers, crowded; peduncles axillary, straight, equal to or slightly longer than leaves; bracts ca. 1 mm; pedicels 2-3 mm. Corolla yellow, 6-9(-11) mm; standard long obovate. Ovary linear; ovules 2-5. Legume falcate or straight, (8-)10-15 × 2.5-3.5(-4) mm, appressed puberulent, veins oblique and thin. Seeds 2-4, brown, ovate-elliptic, ca. 2 × 1.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Jul-Sep.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stem can be 80 cm long. It can be erect or lie over. The leaflets are 5-20 mm long by 2-6 mm wide. They are broadly oval. The fruit are 8-11 mm long by 2.5 mm wide. There are 2-8 seeds.
It is a temperate plant. It grows on grassy slopes and dry sandy fields. In Nepal it grows at 500 m above sea level. In Argentina it grows from sea level to 500 m above sea level. In the Indian Himalayas it grows between 3,000-4,500 m above sea level. Tasmania Herbarium.
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