Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, decumbent, or sprawling, silky-strigose, villous, or villous-tomentose.

obsolete, ascending, or prostrate, radiating from root-crown, to 3 cm, internodes mostly obscured by leaf bases, silky-strigose to strigulose.

(1–)2–7(–10) cm;

stipules clasping with margins touching but distinct or shortly connate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (1–)2–7(–11) mm, often veined, semileathery;

leaflet blades linear, lanceolate, oblong, elliptic, or elliptic-oblanceolate, 3–33(–35) mm, apex acute, subacute, or obtuse, surfaces glabrous, glabrate, or pubescent.

(1.5–)2.5–10 cm;

stipules 3–7 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–13, blades obovate-cuneate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 3–12 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces strigulose.

densely or loosely 6–40-flowered;

axis 1.5–15 cm in fruit, elongating little after flowering;

bracts 1.2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.1–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–5.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(–2), exceptionally conspicuous.

usually erect, rarely humistrate in fruit, (2–)2.5–15 cm, equal to or longer than subtending leaf, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

ascending, 0.5–3(–5) cm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

7–13.8(–14.5) mm;

calyx 3.7–6.4 mm, villous or strigulose, tube 2.4–5 mm, lobes subulate, (1–)1.1–4 mm;

corolla white to purplish or creamy white;

wing apex bidentate;

keel (6.1–)6.7–9.6 mm, shorter than wings.

(14.5–)15–18.5 mm;

calyx cylindric or vase-shaped, 6–10.5 mm, strigulose, hairs black or white, tube 6.5–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla white, whitish, or ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8.3–14.3 mm.

green, often with red or purple, becoming stramineous, ± straight or slightly curved abaxially, convex adaxially, not sulcate, obliquely ellipsoid, semi-ellipsoid, or narrowly oblong, laterally compressed, 10–30 × 3–9(–11) mm, papery, translucent, usually glabrous, sometimes strigose, hyaline septum 0–0.6 mm wide;

stipe 2.5–8[–10] mm.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), green or purplish becoming brownish or stramineous, scarcely to moderately incurved, obliquely ovoid, lanceolate-ovoid, or lunately ellipsoid, obcompressed becoming laterally compressed distally, 9–20(–22) × 4–8 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, leathery, walls much less than 1 mm thick, densely strigulose.

8–16.

18–33.