OregonFlora species comparison

1–10+, ascending or decumbent, often fistulose, occasionally branched near bases, distally usually with few or more numerous closely appressed, flattened trichomes.

2–11 cm;

leaflets 5–9, elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, sometimes oval, 8–39 × 3–16 mm;

margins eciliate or ciliate;

tips emarginate or rounded to obtuse or acute;

surfaces glabrous or occasionally with minute trichomes appressed to abaxial midribs; young leaflets sometimes heavily invested with minute flattened trichomes;

petiolules 0.6–1.2 mm.

3–10(11)-flowered, with flowers on one side or occasionally ± radially disposed;

pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm.

ascending, 2–17 cm, usually much ? subtending leaf; much elongating in fruit, often bearing a few scattered or sometimes copious closely appressed trichomes;

bracts directly subtending umbels; simple, generally scale-like, scarious, rarely leaf-like, 2–3(4) mm, sometimes absent.

slightly nodding; (12)13–16 mm;

calyces 6–8 mm, green or reddish, glabrous;

tubes obconic-cylindric, 4–5 mm;

lobes subulate to triangular, 1–3 mm, eciliate or sometimes sparsely ciliate; posterior pair of lobes and anterior 3 dissimilar in size; shape; and spacing;

corollas broad; showy;

claws conspicuously > calyx tubes;

banners large and spreading, yellow to yellow-orange, sometimes with reddish blush or reddish veins;

wings spreading widely, proximally pale yellowish, distally white, sometimes slightly pink; inner margins ± approximate, sometimes overlapping;

keels up to 3 mm < wings, bright yellow throughout or proximally paler with brighter yellow tips.

± inclined to declined; ± linear, 30–70 × 1.5–3 mm, dark brown to reddish.

few, oblong, 2–2.7 × 1–1.5 mm.

narrow, deltoid or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–5 × 1.7–4; ± symmetric, scarious;

margins entire;

tips usually obtuse or acute.

=14.