Lotus subbiflorus

Prostrate or ascending annual herb; stems to 70 cm long, with dense long spreading hairs. Leaflets somewhat dimorphic, pilose; basal 2 ovate to lanceolate, 4–12 mm long, 2–8 mm wide, apices acute; terminal 3 narrowly obovate, 5–20 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, apices acute or obtuse. Inflorescences mostly 1–4-flowered; peduncle 0.5–5.5 cm long; calyx obconical, 4.5–6.5 mm long, pilose, teeth erect in bud, about equal, longer than tube; corolla 6–9.5 mm long, yellow; standard obovate, equal to or shorter than keel; keel obtusely bent on lower edge at base, beak long and straight. Pod terete, 0.8–1.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, glabrous; seeds 4–14, subglobose, c. 1 mm long, brown or olive-green, mottled. Flowers Nov.–Mar.