Japan Flora: Tufted, more or less pubescent perennial with thick erect caudex; stems 25-80 cm. long, nearly simple or sparsely branched above; leaves petioled, 8-15 cm. long, the lower ones reduced to sheathing stipules; stipules membranous, deciduous, brown, many-nerved, on the ventral margin con­nate to form a narrowly lanceolate blade 12-20 nun. long, the leaflets 11-25, herbaceous to chartaceous, narrowly ovate or broadly lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, obtuse to rounded and obscurely mucronate at apex, with closely spaced dender lateral nerves, nearly glabrous above, usually pubescent and obscurely glandular-dotted beneath; racemes axillary, 3-8 cm. long, onesided, many-flowered, the peduncles to 15 cm. long, the bracts caducous, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 3-8 mm. long, 1-3.5 mm. wide, the pedicels 3-7 mm. long, white-pubescent, the bracteoles persistent, linear, shorter than standard and wings; legumes 3-4 cm. long, 3- or 4-jointed, the joints elliptic, flat, entire or obscurely undu­late on margin, with reticulate venation on the faces, gla­brous or minutely puberulous. June-Aug. Sandy to gravelly slopes in high mountains, or in grassy places in low­lands in northern distr.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr. and northw.). n. Korea to e. Siberia.