Often found even in dry years on rocky slopes. The pea-like flowers are spiraled around the hairy, upright flower spikes. The individual flowers are 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) long and have a brown-spotted, yellow and white banner spot that becomes magenta-tinged with age. The keel petals curve upward and have a hairy fringe. The leaves are green and palmately compound with 7 to 11 linear to narrowly oblanceolate, partly folded leaflets. The upper surfaces of the leaflets are covered in spreading and flat-lying hairs and are hairiest near the margins.

Saguaro National Park East
3/21/15

Notes: Along Bear Canyon Road at Sabino Canyon 2/2/16

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