Herbs perennial, slender, caulescent; caudex superficial, ultimately suffruticose. Hairs basifixed. Stems few or several to many. Stipules connate or distinct at distal nodes. Leaves odd-pinnate, petiolate or short-petiolate; leaflets (6–)8–25, terminal leaflet jointed or confluent. Racemes loosely flowered, flowers declined or nodding. Calyx tubes campanulate. Corollas whitish or ochroleucous, sometimes lilac-veined, banner recurved through (50–)85–100°, keel apex deltate. Legumes ultimately deciduous, stipitate or subsessile, pendulous or deflexed, symmetrically or lunately oblong-ellipsoid or semi-ellipsoid, 3-sided, ± bilocular. Seeds 6–16.
Distribution
w United States.
Discussion
Species 4 (4 in the flora).
Section Neonix is distributed from central California to interior Oregon, western Nevada, and southwestern Idaho.
Selected References
None.