Flora of North America species comparison

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

obsolete.

(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.

3–11 cm;

stipules 3–9 mm;

leaflets 11–19, blades obovate or elliptic, 4–8 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces hairy abaxially, 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.

(1 or)2–5(–7)-flowered;

axis to 0.6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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.

(0–)1–2(–5) cm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

2–4 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.

20–23 mm;

calyx cylindric, 11–14 mm, pilose;

corolla white to lavender-pink or veined pink-purple, keel tip lavender-pink.

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, brownish gray, ± straight, semi-ellipsoid, subterete to slightly obcompressed, 8–10 × 6–8 mm, thin and papery, pilose.

8–16.

20.