• annual with creeping hairy stems and pinnately compound leaves
• leaflets notched at tip
• flowers lavender to bluish
• scattered locations in 15 counties in eastern half of Texas

• fruit a pod < 1/2 inch long, broad at base, narrowing to tip
• "Astragalus reflexus, which must appear to the casual or uninstructed eye an inconsiderable and trifling weed, cannot fail to excite the admiration of anyone who has paused to ponder the mysterious impulses which have given rise to the protean variations on the Astragalus motif" (Barneby, 1964).

Barneby, R. C. 1964. Atlas of North American Astragalus. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 13: 1-1188.