Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, densely silky-strigulose.

ascending to erect, strigulose.

(5–)7–17(–20) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2–14 mm, scarious;

leaflets (17–)21–35, blades linear, linear-oblong, -elliptic, -lanceolate, or -oblanceolate, (3–)6–26 mm, apex obtuse and apiculate or emarginate, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

(2–)3–11 cm;

stipules 3–9 mm, papery proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, 1–22(–30) mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

15–45-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (5–)7–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5–)7–27-flowered;

axis (1–)3.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(or 1).

erect, 6–24 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3.5–)5–18 cm, surpassing subtending leaf.

1.2–5 mm.

0.5–2 mm (0.8–3 mm in fruit).

12.6–17.6 mm;

calyx (6.5–)8–11.4 mm, densely silky-strigulose, hairs white, tube 5–7.2 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.5–)2–4.2 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner gently and slightly recurved;

keel 11.5–14.7 mm.

(4.1–)5.5–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.3–5.4 mm, strigulose to pilosulous, tube 2.5–3.5 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 0.9–1.6 mm;

corolla blue-purple, pale pink, or whitish;

keel 4–5.7 mm.

spreading to pendulous, stramineous, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid or semi-ovoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat compressed laterally, (20–)25–43 × 13–18 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

stipe filiform, 14–40 mm, pubescent.

spreading or reflexed, dark when dry, usually somewhat decurved, subsymmetrically or obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, (4–)5–12(–13) × (2.3–)2.5–5.5 mm, sub-bilocular, firmly papery, base cuneate, apex shortly cuspidate, strigose-pilosulous;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum (0.2–)0.4–1.2 mm wide;

sessile or subsessile.

(16–)18–30.

4–8.

= 22.

= 16, 32.