Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, usually strigulose, rarely pilose-pilosulous, usually cinereous or canescent, rarely greenish.

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.

3–15(–18) cm;

stipules connate, 2–10 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets (5–)9–21, blades linear, narrowly oblong, or oblanceolate to ovate, 3–31 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces silvery-strigose, rarely greenish, or glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

9–47-flowered;

axis (2–)3–15(–20) cm in fruit;

bracts (2–)3–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

6–30-flowered;

axis 2–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or ascending, (3–)5–23 cm, surpassing subtending leaves.

0.3–1.2 mm.

0.7–1.2 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.

9–17.8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4–10 mm, pilosulous, strigulose, or hirsute, tube 3–5.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate to narrowly triangular, 2–6 mm;

corolla usually cream, lemon yellow, white, stramineous, reddish lilac, reddish purple, blue, rarely pink-purple or suffused with pale pink or purple;

banner recurved through 45(–90)°;

keel 6.5–10 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.

erect, stramineous, straight, oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, 7–13 × 3.5–5.5 mm, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigose.

(6–)8–17.

= 22.