Plants annual, 1–5 dm.
Stems ascending or erect, pubescent.
Leaves cauline; leaflets 5–8, 10–40 × 1–5 mm, linear to oblanceolate, tips acute, surfaces pubescent to sericeous; petioles 12–55 mm.
Inflorescences 1–9 cm; peduncles 2–6.5 cm; pedicels 1–3 mm.
Flowers calyces 4–8 mm, not spurred, lips equal to subequal; corollas 5–9 mm, usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, sometimes with patches of yellow; banners usually typical type, sometimes weakly cupped or pinched, spot white, purple, or absent.
Fruits 10–25 mm, villous.
Seeds 3–6.
Pastures, meadows, roadsides, open forests. Flowering Mar–Jul. 0–1000 m. Casc, Col, CR, ECas, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, WA; north to British Columbia, south to Mexico. Native.