Erect, tall perennial plant with showy, fragrant, pinkish-purple flowers. Flowers measured to 20 mm wide (smaller than listed in Budd's Flora of 3-5 cm wide), grow in racemes at stem tips. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, dentate, alternate, have small petioles on lower stem, to sessile on upper stem. Leaf highlighted in photo above was 12 cm long by 5 cm wide. Leaf bottom and top pubescent with short hairs, stems hairy as well. Growth habit is single-stemmed to branching towards the top on large plants. Pods are linear, cylindrical in profile, ascending. We measured a pod at 16 mm long by just under 1 mm wide.

Introduced from Europe, found occasionally in shrubs and tree groves on the prairies and parklands.

Took the above photos June 25th in an old farm property full of brome grass, about 250 km west of our home in Regina, SK.