Japan Flora: Short ­creeping, branched, dwarf suffrutescent subshrub; stems about 10 cm. long, densely covered at base with old marccscent leaves; leaves mostly radical, petioled, 3-8 cm. long, the stipules about 5 mm. long, narrowly ovate, obtuse, loosely pubescent, 1-nerved, connate below on ventral margins, ad­nate on the lower half to the base of the petiole, the leaflets 9-15, broadly lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 5-10 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, nearly acute, with slightly involute margins, appressed-pubescent on both sides; peduncles or scapes 1-5 cm. long, with dense ascending white hairs; flowers 1 or 2 (3), purple, 17-20 mm. long, the pedicels short, the bracts broadly lanceolate, membranous, 2-3 mm. long; calyx 10-12 mm. long, the teeth 3-4 mm. long, linear; legumes broadly lanceolate, 3.5 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, beaked at apex, loosely brownish short-pubescent.July-Aug. Sandy or gravelly al­pinc slopes.

Honshu (centr. distr.).