Flora of North America species comparison

often erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent, diffuse, or spreading, strigulose or glabrous.

3–13.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–10(–12) mm, submembranous becoming scarious, pallid;

leaflets (7–)11–35, blades lanceolate-oblong to oblong, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 5–27(–32) mm, apex usually acute or obtuse, rarely emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

15–19, (5–)10–25 mm.

20–34-flowered;

axis 3–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–4 mm.

(15–)25–80-flowered;

axis 3–25 cm in fruit;

bracts (1–)2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, ascending, or incurved, 2.5–13 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

11–15 mm;

calyx usually white, tube 3.5–5.5(–7) mm, lobes narrowly subulate, (1.5–)1.8–3.8 mm;

corolla white or whitish and keel tip maculate, banner sometimes with purple center and purple lines, or suffused with pale purple throughout;

banner longer than keel.

(6.7–)8–17.5 mm;

calyx obliquely campanulate, gibbous-saccate, 3.5–9.6 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 2.8–5.7(–7) mm, lobes subulate, (0.7–)1–4.5(–6) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, whitish, or pink-purple, keel tip often maculate, sometimes purple;

banner recurved through 45° (except 90° in var. nevadensis);

keel 7–13 mm.

linear- or narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, 8–13.5 × 2.2–3.7 mm, smooth, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe 4–5.2 mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear, ellipsoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, abaxial face with suture forming prominent ridge flanked by depressed grooves, adaxial face convexly rounded, (5–)6.5–17(–20) × 2–4.5 mm, fleshy becoming thinly leathery or papery, strigulose or glabrous;

stipe 1.4–5.2(–6) mm.

4–10.

5–15.

= 24.