Flora of North America species comparison

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

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.

2.5–11 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, firm at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–17, blades oblong-oblanceolate, linear-oblong, or obovate, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, 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.

loosely 9–20-flowered;

axis 4.5–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 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.

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 2.5–6(–10) cm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

0.8–2 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.

6.9–7.6 mm;

calyx 3.5–4 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 6.8–7.7 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.

pendulous, mottled (and glaucescent) becoming stramineous and faintly purple-tinged, slightly incurved, oblong-lanceoloid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 18–25 × 3–4.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

septum 2.4–2.7 mm wide;

stipe 3–4 mm.

8–16.

11–16.