Plant: Annual, hairy; stem decumbent to erect

Leaves: palmately compound, cauline; stipules small; leaflets 1-3 cm, oblanceolate to obovate

INFLORESCENCE: spike, 5-20 mm wide, ovoid to short-cylindric

Flowers: calyx 4-15 mm, lobes > or >> tube, tapered or bristle-like, plumose; corolla < or > calyx, 2-colored (purple and white); 9 filaments fused, 1 free

Fruit: legume, generally indehiscent, but often breaking, short, plump, generally included in corolla; base often stalk-like; Seeds 1-2

Misc: Coastal dunes, grasslands, wet meadows, open slopes, oak chaparral, pine woodlands, roadsides, other disturbed places; < 2100 m.