Annual or short-lived perennial, with erect pilose stem to 10–30 cm tall and often longer spreading to weakly ascending lower branches, sometimes perennating with extra basal branches but taproot undivided.
Standard pale yellow, a little shorter than the calyx and ± the same length as the wings and keel, spathulate, with a few hairs along the midvein outside.
Pods 6–10 × 3–4.5 mm, ovate-oblong, tapered to the persistent forwardly directed style, densely pilose, 4–8-seeded.
Flowers 2–9 in heads towards the tips of shoots, subsessile; bracts 2–3.5 mm long.
Calyx 4–5 mm long, pilose; lobes 2.5–3 mm long, narrowly triangular.
Seeds 1.2–1.5 mm long, cream-coloured to brown, slightly sculptured.