Perennial herbs, glabrous to slightly pubescent. Stems erect, 30-60 cm, unbranched or branched above. Leaves palmately (3-)5(-9)-foliolate; stipules adnate to petiole for most of their length, membranous, apex long triangular; petiolule ca. 1 mm; leaflets lanceolate to linear-oblong, 25-50 × 5-16 mm, lateral veins 50 or more pairs, running to serrulate margin, base narrowly cuneate, apex acute or obtuse. Flowers 20-35, in terminal or axillary heads subtended by a membranous, caducous involucre; peduncle 1-3(-5) cm. Calyx 6-10 mm, sparsely pubescent, veins 10; teeth filiform, 1-2 × length of tube. Corolla purple or white, (10-)12-20 mm. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; ovules 5-9. Legume gray-brown, oblong, 6-10 × 2-3 mm; style persistent. Seeds (2 or)3-9, brown, ovoid, 1.5-2 mm, smooth. Fl. and fr. Jun-Oct.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 30-60 cm tall. The leaves have 5 leaflets spread out like fingers on a hand. The leaflets are 25-50 mm long by 5-16 mm wide.
Forests to steppe regions in eastern Europe. Forest margins, hillsides, grasslands, moist lowlands.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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