Distribution: Occurring in scattered locations on both sides of the Cascades crest; introduced from British Columbia to California, native from the Great Plains to eastern North America.

Habitat: Forest edge, roadsides, wastelots, and other disturbed areas.

Flowers: May-July

Origin: Introduced from central and eastern North America

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Deciduous shrub to 2 m. tall, the new shoots glandular-bristly.

Leaves alternate, pinnate; leaflets 7-13, elliptic, entire, with small stipules.

Inflorescence of pendulous, axillary, 3- to 5-flowered racemes, the peduncles glandular-hispid; flowers pea-like, pink or pinkish-purple; calyx bell-shaped, weakly two-lipped.

Pod flattened, hispid, but rarely developed.