Flowering stems 5–20 cm tall, together with petioles and pedicels densely villous or hirtellous throughout. Leaflets elliptic or obovate-elliptic, apex 2-fid, rarely 3-fid. Inflorescence corymbose, many flowered. Flowers 0.7–1 cm in diam. Fl. and fr. May–Sep.

This variety is used medicinally and for forage.

Sparse forests, grassy mountain slopes, loess slopes, field and road banks, semidry desert grasslands, sandy coasts; 800--3600 m. Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang [Korea, Mongolia, Russia].