Japan Flora: Stems ascending from a procumbent base, 10-30 cm. long, tufted, the caudex thick­ened; leaves 5-15 cm. long, short-petioled, the stipules broadly lanceolate, acute, connate on lower half on dorsal margins, the leaflets 17-21, oblong to narrowly so, 7-20 mm. long, 3-8 mxn. wide, subobtuse at apex, slightly glaucescent, glabrous on upper side, loosely appressed-pilose beneath 5 racemes on somewhat longer peduncles, short-cylindric, 3-6 cm. long, densely many-flowered; flowers ascending, purple, rarely white, 12-15 mm. long, rather narrow; calyx 5-6 mm. long, with appressed-white and black pubescence, the teeth linear, about half as long as the tube; standard oblong, longer than the wings and keel; legumes loosely white and black appressed-puberulous, ascending, sessile, oblong, 3-angled, 2- locular, abruptly beaked.  July-Aug. Gravelly or sandy slopes in mountains.

Hokkaido (Mount Oohira in Shiri- beshi), Honshu (centr. distr. and northw.); rare. Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, and e. Siberia.