Flora of North America species comparison

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

single, erect or prostrate to ascending, 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–)3–8 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, papery;

leaflets 7–13, blades broadly or narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, (3–)5–15 mm, apex obtuse, shallowly emarginate, or subacute, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

densely or loosely 6–40-flowered;

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

bracts 1.2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–10-flowered, flowers loosely ascending or in age declined;

axis (1–)1.5–3.5(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2, minute when present.

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 cm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

1–2 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.

7.8–10.4 mm;

calyx often purplish, campanulate, 4–4.6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.5–3.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 5.9–6.6 mm, apex blunt.

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.

horizontal or declined, stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, plumply ovoid or broadly oblong-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, subterete, (13–)15–25 × 11–15 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, somewhat lustrous, sparsely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 1–2.5 mm wide;

gynophore to 2 mm.

8–16.

19–24.

= 22.