Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent 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–)4–10(–11.5) cm;

stipules distinct, (2–)3–8 mm, papery at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9–)13–21, blades oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, or linear-elliptic, 5–15(–18) mm, apex obtuse, truncate and apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous 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.

(7–)10–25(–32)-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis (2–)3–7(–11) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.4 mm.

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 or incurved-ascending, 0.3–0.9 cm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

0.5–1.8 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.

5.7–7.1 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–5 mm, strigulose, tube 2.2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate or lanceolate-subulate, (1–)1.3–2.3 mm;

corolla reddish lilac or reddish purple;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 4.7–5.6 mm, apex obtusely deltate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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 or declined, green or minutely purple-dotted becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, broadly and plumply ovoid- or obovoid-ellipsoid, obovoid, or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, 6–13 × 6–10 mm, beak nearly obsolete, thin becoming papery, sparsely strigulose.

8–16.

8–11.

= 22.