Juvenile Leaves well developed only in young plants. Leaves are alternate with 3 leaflets when near the base of branches, and simple and pressed close to branches above. Flower Flowers in May and June starting in it's thirds year.
Flowers are bright yellow and sometimes tinged with purple.
They are often arranged with two to three per axil. Flowers produce black flattened seed pods each containing up to 8 seeds. Biology Long lived perennial legume shrub originally from Erurope.