Found on rocky slopes in desert scrub, desert grassland, and oak woodland, it is spectacular when conditions are right. The small, pea-like flowers are in ball-shaped, fuzzy, whitish, terminal flower spikes. The individual flowers have white banner petals and a purple keel and wings. Some plants have flowers with purple banner petals and a white keel and wings. The leaves are gray-green, covered in velvety hair, and pinnately compound with 3 to 9 oval, folded leaflets. The plants have a bushy, branched, upright growth form.

Rincon Mountains
Saguaro National Park East
Location: on slope above park road.
3/21/15

Notes: Rincon Mountains on Douglas Springs Trail 3/10/17

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