Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules.

erect or ascending, 1–9(–17) cm underground, strigulose.

0.6–2 cm;

stipules 3.5–7 mm, hyaline, glabrate or glabrous abaxially, ciliate;

leaflet blades spatulate to elliptic, 3–7.5 mm, apex acute, surfaces silvery-pilose.

sparse or nearly bladeless and rushlike, 2–11 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, mostly distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, (1–)2–7 mm;

leaflets 3–13 or distal leaves reduced to rachis (phyllodia), blades linear, linear-filiform, linear-elliptic, or elliptic, 5–30 × 0.5–4 mm, apex acute, surfaces strigulose;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent and not jointed to rachis.

2- or 3-flowered;

axis very short;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–25-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 2–20(–23) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–2.3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.7–1.5 cm.

incurved-ascending, 1–14 cm.

1–1.5 mm.

1–8 mm.

(5.8–)6.6–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–4.2 mm, densely pilose, tube 2.1–2.3 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 90°, obovate-cuneate, (5.8–)6.6–8 mm;

wings (5.7–)6–6.8 mm;

keel 4.1–4.5 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

(6.6–)7.6–11.2 mm;

calyx 4–6.3 mm, black-strigose and/or white-strigose, tube 3.4–5.4 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 0.5–1.4 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, sometimes tinged or veined with purple or pink;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel (6.2–)6.5–9.4 mm, apex broadly triangular.

ascending, ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 4–5 × 1.2–2 mm, papery, densely silky-strigose or silky-pilose.

pendulous to spreading, green, purple, or mottled, becoming stramineous, straight, linear, narrowly oblong, or oblanceoloid, laterally compressed, bicarinate, 13–50(–53) × 2.3–5 mm, papery, strigose;

sessile.

6–10.

11–26.