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Perennial herb. Stems procumbent, up to 0.75 m long; hairy. Leaves 4-foliolate; leaflets; glandular-hairy. Flowers: bracts ovate, punctate; standard yellow or orange, often lined with red or purple; wings yellow; keel greenish and yellow; Oct.-Mar. Pods 13-18 mm long, with 4-7 articles; articles 3.0-3.5 x 2.5-3.0 mm, covered with retrorse bristles up to 1 mm long; seeds chestnut-brown, semicircular-reniform; hilum small, very eccentric.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems lie along the ground. They are 75 cm long. The leaves are in rings of four. They are narrow. They have glands underneath. The flowers are yellow with red veins. They are are the end of the plant and have bright green bracts. The fruit is a pod. It has 4-7 segments and it is more narrow between them. It is covered with spiny bristles.
Inflorescences 3.5–14 cm long; peduncle 1–6.5 cm long; bracts 6–16 × 2.5–8 mm, elliptic to ovate, acute, glabrous or glabrescent but the margins usually conspicuously ciliate, densely pellucid-punctate.
Fruits 13–18 mm long of 4–7 articles; each article 3–3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, covered with retrorsely pubescent bristles up to 1 mm long.
Standard yellow or orange, often lined with red or purple; wings yellow; keel greenish and yellow.
Seeds chestnut-brown, 1.7–2.1 × 1.5 × 0.8 mm, semicircular-reniform; hilum small, very eccentric.
Perennial herb (rarely annual) with decumbent, prostrate or less often erect stems 8–75 cm long.
Stems sparsely to densely pubescent rarely glabrous, usually much branched at the base.
Calyx tube 1.5–2 mm long; lobes 2.5–4 mm long.
