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.

2.7–12.5 cm;

stipules 3–8 mm;

leaflets 7–17, blades elliptic to oblanceolate, 3–13 mm, apex mucronate, acute to obtuse, or truncate, surfaces strigose.

(15–)25–80-flowered;

axis 3–25 cm in fruit;

bracts (1–)2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.8–2.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.8–5.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

1.1–8 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

1.3–2.5 mm.

(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.

15–25 mm;

calyx cylindric, 10.2–15 mm, strigulose, tube 8.2–11.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.9–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, sometimes tinged or veined purple, wing and keel tips purple;

banner recurved through 40°.

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.

ascending, humistrate, slightly incurved, lanceoloid-oblong to lanceoloid-ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 22–35 × 5–11 mm, unilocular, thinly leathery or woody, strigose.

5–15.