Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, strigulose.

prostrate to ascending, strigulose.

5–21 cm;

stipules 2.5–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (15–)19–27(or 29), blades oblong, oblong-oblanceolate, or linear-oblong to linear, 5–25 mm, apex truncate to retuse or apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

1.5–4.5 cm;

stipules 1.5–4.5 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong-obovate, (2–)3–10 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

10–20(–25)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (3–)5–27 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

6–15-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 8–20(–25) cm.

divaricate and spreading-incurved, 2.5–7 cm.

0.7–4 mm, little, if any, clavate thickening in fruit.

0.8–2.5 mm.

13–15.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5.1–6.6 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 3.8–4.9 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.9 mm;

corolla white or cream, drying ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 10.2–11.8(–12.5) mm.

8.6–10.8 mm;

calyx 3.7–5.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.4–3.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–2.4 mm;

corolla keel 8.2–9.6 mm.

erect, greenish stramineous, straight, linear-oblong or narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, lateral face convex, dorsal face scarcely narrower, grooved or not, 14–24(–28) × 2.7–4.5 mm, ± bilocular, firm and scarcely fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous or strigulose;

septum 0.8–1.7 mm wide;

stipe (2.5–)3–6 mm.

purplish, gently to strongly incurved to 0.5 spiral, 12–16 × 3.6–5 mm, incompletely bilocular, wider than high in cross section, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigose, hairs ± 1 mm;

septum 0.6–1 mm wide;

stipe 2–5 mm.

20–29.

= 22.