Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending to erect, sparsely 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.

(2.5–)4–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2.5–10 mm;

leaflets 3–11, blades linear-oblong or oblanceolate, (6–)15–50 mm, margins flat, elevated, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or strigulose adaxially;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

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–)9–27-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 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.

erect and strict, 3–10 cm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

2–7 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.

15–22.5 mm;

calyx 6.5–10.3 mm, strigose, tube 5.2–8 × 2.9–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2.5 mm;

corolla cream;

keel (11.5–)12.7–15.2 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.

erect or ascending, brown or stramineous, ± straight, narrowly oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, terete or somewhat laterally compressed, 9–18 × 2.7–3.5 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, usually glabrous, rarely strigulose;

sessile.

8–16.

(14–)16–21(–23).

= 44.