[3] It is native to western North America from central Canada to California to Texas, where it grows in sandy habitat, such as alluvial plains[4] and sagebrush.

The leaves are palmately compound, each made up of usually three linear or lance-shaped leaflets borne on a short petiole.

Each flower is under a centimeter long with a pealike corolla in shades of light purple-blue to white.

In 2009 James Lauritz Reveal and Ashley Noel Egan published a paper where they reclassified with the name Ladeania lanceolata.

[7] It continues to be listed as Psoralidium lanceolatum by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS database.