Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules.

single or few and clustered, sprawling to erect, 3–40+ cm underground, densely strigulose or ashen or silvery-canescent.

1–4(–5) cm;

stipules 4–8 mm, hyaline, glabrous abaxially;

leaflet blades narrowly spatulate to narrowly lanceolate, 3–12 mm, apex acute, surfaces silvery-strigose.

sometimes reduced to phyllodia distally, 2–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and subscarious at proximal nodes, mostly connate and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–9 mm;

leaflets (0 or 1)3–13, blades narrowly oblong to filiform, 3–50(–80) mm, apex obtuse to retuse or acute, surfaces strigulose, hairs very slightly spreading;

terminal leaflet continuous with rachis distally, reduced to phyllodia.

(1 or)2–4-flowered;

axis 0.5–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.8–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–15(–25)-flowered;

axis 1–8(–15) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 0.7–2.2 cm.

divaricate and incurved, 0.7–7.5 cm.

0.7–1.5 mm.

0.7–3.1 mm.

(9.5–)10.5–16.7 mm;

calyx deeply campanulate to subcylindric, (4.8–)5–7.1 mm, densely strigose to pilose, hairs white, tube 3.6–5.1 mm, lobes subulate to linear-subulate, (1.4–)1.9–5.1 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white, wing tips white or pale;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 7.5–10.5 mm, apex acute-triangular, often somewhat beaklike.

6.3–10.8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.1–6 mm, strigose, tube 2.1–3.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3 mm;

corolla usually dull purplish to pink, rarely whitish;

banner abruptly recurved through 85–90°;

keel 6.4–9.1 mm, apex narrowly triangular, subacute, sometimes beaklike.

mostly enclosed in marcescent calyx, ascending, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided compressed, 4.5–7.5 × 1.2–2.2 mm, thin becoming papery, densely silver-strigulose.

purple-mottled becoming purplish brown, straight or slightly curved, ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, (10–)15–50 × 5–26 mm, papery, glabrous;

stipe 0–3.3 mm.

2.

12–29.