Decumbent to erect plant with few to many stems stems. Racemes of white flowers with a purple-tipped keel, flowers pendant. Raceme measured to 3 cm long, flowers measured to 8 mm in length. Calyx with black hairs. Leaves alternate, pinnate with 9 or 11 leaflets. Leaf measured at 5 cm long by 3 cm wide, leaflets linear-lanceolate, stalkless, a leaflet measured at 23 mm long and 4 mm wide. Inflorescence elongating when in fruit. Fruit pendant, red in colour, one legume measured to 2 cm long. Foliage grey-green and pubescent.

Budd's Flora lists its habitat as gravel banks along rivers and slopes. We found them on a gravelly slope.

Rare, listed as an S2 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.

Budd's Flora lists its stems growing to a length of 40 cm, we measured plants to 29 cm tall.

Took the above photos June 19th Cypress Hills, about 450 km south west of our home in Regina, SK.

Synonym: this plant is listed in many field guides under its old name Astragalus aboriginum.