Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose to pilose, cinereous or canescent.

erect or ascending, sparsely to densely strigulose.

3–10(–14) cm;

stipules 2.5–10 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, (2–)4–27(–45) mm, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(3–)4.5–18 cm;

stipules 3–11 mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 11–25, blades ovate, oblong, elliptic, or narrowly oblong to linear, 5–26 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially, sometimes glabrate.

9–47-flowered;

axis (2–)3–15(–20) cm in fruit;

bracts (2–)3–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(7–)10–26(–30)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 4–10(–15) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 1–4(–5.5) cm, much shorter than subtending leaves.

erect, (1.5–)2.5–17(–35) cm.

0.3–1.2 mm.

spreading in fruit, 0.7–3.5 mm.

13–17.2 mm;

calyx (7.2–)7.5–11 mm, strigulose to pilose, tube (5.4–)5.7–7.4 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.5–)1.8–3.6 mm;

corolla banner recurved through 45°;

keel 10.4–12.8 mm.

12–20 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 5.4–9.5 mm, strigose, tube 4.4–8 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.7–2.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, tinged pink, purplish, pink-purple, or red-violet, keel maculate or immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–14.4 mm.

brown-stramineous, gently incurved, dorsiventrally compressed or 3-sided at dehiscence, carinate by ventral suture, beak laterally compressed, 9–12 × 3.3–5 mm, papery, strigose or glabrous;

stipe 0.7–2.5 mm.

usually erect, rarely deflexed, green or suffused or speckled with purple becoming brownish stramineous, oblong to ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, grooved dorsally, keeled ventrally, 12–27(–30) × 3.5–8(–9) mm, base cuneate, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming thinly or stiffly leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.5–1.2 mm wide;

stipe 6–15(–17) mm.

17–32.

= 22.

= 22, 24.