Leaves unifoliolate to digitately trifoliolate, or rarely with occasional leaves 5-foliolate; petiole 1–7(9) mm long, appressed-pubescent; leaflets 20–50(60) × 2–6(9) mm, oblanceolate to linear-elliptic, the upper surface glabrous or rarely very sparsely or minutely appressed-pubescent, the lower surface shortly and regularly closely appressed-pubescent.
Pods 20–36 × 8–13 mm, somewhat shallowly plicate, flat or coiled (see subspecies), finely and inconspicuously appressed-pubescent or rarely very shortly spreading-pubescent.
Petals bluish or purple, or perhaps rarely white; standard 4–7 mm long, spathulate or subpandurate.
An undershrub up to 40 cm high, erect or ascending or rarely ± prostrate.
Young stem appressed-white pubescent, sometimes subsericeous.
Calyx 2.5–4 mm long, appressed-pubescent.