Flora of North America species comparison

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

to 6 cm, internodes ± obscured by stipules, densely villosulous and hirsute.

(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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 3.5–7 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 11–17, blades elliptic to obovate, 2–14 mm, apex short-acuminate to acute, surfaces strigulose-villosulous, hairs ascending, dull.

densely or loosely 6–40-flowered;

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

bracts 1.2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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, 2–5.5 cm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

2–3 mm.

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.

18–22.5 mm;

calyx cylindric, 8.4–12 mm, villous, tube 6.2–7.5 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla whitish suffused with pale purple, keel tip purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–13.3 mm, 4.5–9 mm shorter than banner.

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.

ascending (not humistrate), sessile or substipitate, incurved, ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 10–20 × 5–10 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, densely hirsute, hairs lustrous, concealing surface, longest 2–2.5 mm.

8–16.

14–16.