Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

decumbent to ascending or erect, sparsely strigulose.

(4–)5–14 cm;

stipules 2–6(–7) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (15–)19–25(or 27), blades elliptic, linear-elliptic, or oblanceolate, 2–14 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, truncate-apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 4–13 mm;

leaflets 5–13, blades linear-oblong, 10–45(–60) mm, margins flat, elevated, apex obtuse to apiculate, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2.5–)5–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–20-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 2–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

ascending, often incurved, (7–)10–18(–20) cm.

erect and incurved-ascending, 3–12 cm.

1–4 mm.

1.5–4 mm.

11.7–15.2 mm;

calyx 6.6–8.8 mm, strigose, tube 4.5–6 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel (9.5–)10–11.7 mm.

24–30 mm;

calyx 10–14.5 mm, strigose, tube 7–10.2 × 4.5–6.2 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4.5 mm;

corolla white, concolorous;

keel 13.6–20.2 mm.

pendulous, stramineous, straight or gently incurved, linear-ellipsoid, 3-sided and laterally compressed, lateral face flat, dorsal face grooved, (25–)30–45 × 2.5–3.3 mm, length mostly 10 times width, papery, finely strigulose;

septum 1.6–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 6–15 mm.

deflexed, brown or stramineous, straight, oblong-ellipsoid, subterete becoming laterally compressed, 13–33 × 6–12 mm, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous or minutely puberulent;

sessile.

(16–)18–30.

20–28.

= 24.