Flora of North America species comparison

1–10+, erect or decumbent, branched, woody, leafy.

decumbent, ± woody.

irregularly pinnate;

stipules glandlike; short-petiolate to petiolate;

rachis 3–10 mm, not flattened;

leaflets 3–5, blades narrowly obovate to elliptic or oblong, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces sparsely to densely strigose.

3, blades usually gray, surfaces densely strigose, almost silky.

(3–)7–12-flowered.

ascending, 2–10 mm, shorter than leaves;

bract absent or unifoliolate, subtending umbel.

bract unifoliolate.

8–12 mm;

calyx 4–6 mm, tube sparsely strigose to glabrate, lobes short-subulate to deltate;

corolla yellow, claws ± longer than calyx tube, banner implicate-ascending to 90°, wings ± equaling keel;

style abruptly incurved 90°, glabrous.

persistent, exserted, divergent to declined, brown, straight or curved, turgid, slightly constricted, not septate, linear-oblong, 10–50 × 1–2 mm, leathery, apex tapering, long-beaked, indehiscent, ± veined, margins thickened, smooth, glabrate or sparsely strigose.

(20–)30–50 mm.

4–6.

1–4(–6), brown (paler veined), not mottled, cylindric, smooth.