Perennial herbs. Stems erect, 12-40 cm, ridged, creamy pubescent. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm, acuminate; petiole 3-8 mm; leaflets linear-oblong or oblanceolate to linear, 2.5-7.5 × 0.5-1.6 cm, appressed puberulent abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Racemes terminal, 6-17 cm; flowers 2 or 3 verticillate in 2-6 whorls; bracts 8-20 mm, persistent. Calyx 1.5-2.2 cm, gibbous, densely hairy. Corolla yellow, 2.5-2.8 cm, petals with long claw. Ovary densely hairy, with 2-3 mm stipe; ovules 12-20. Legume brown, linear, 5-9 × 0.7-1.2 cm, puberulent, beaked. Seeds 6-14, at central line of valve, black with grayish waxy coating, reniform, 3-5 × 2.5-3.5 mm, smooth. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jun-Oct.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems are erect and 12-40 cm tall. It has ridges and yellow hairs. The leaflets are oblong and 3-8 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. The flowers are yellow. The pods are 5-9 cm long by 1 cm wide. They are hairy and have a beak at the end. There are 6-14 seeds.
Occurring in large groups in steppes, often saline, steppe slopes, sometimes stony, sandy places, and river valleys; often a weed of field crops, especially of wheat, gullies, and roadsides.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in grasslands and ravines.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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