Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, strigulose.

decumbent and ascending, woolly-tomentulose.

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.

(2.5–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 2–5.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflet blades oblong-oblanceolate, oblong-obovate, or oblong-ovate, (3–)6–12(–22) mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces white-pannose.

10–20(–25)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (3–)5–27 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

10–30-flowered;

axis (1–)2–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 8–20(–25) cm.

ascending, (3–)5–13 cm.

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

0.8–3 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.

12.5–16 mm;

calyx 6.6–7.9 mm, white-tomentulose, tube 4.1–4.8 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.3–3.5 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, concolorous, drying yellowish;

keel (9–)9.3–12 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.

pale green or purplish becoming stramineous, 16–26 × (9–)13–23 mm, papery, somewhat translucent, finely tomentulose.

20–29.

= 22.