Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent and incurved-ascending or erect, sparsely to densely strigulose or glabrate.

ascending to erect, villous.

1.5–9.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and submembranous at distal nodes, 1–4 mm, not blackened when dry;

leaflets 11–19, blades elliptic to oblong, lanceolate, or broadly oval, 3–17(–19) mm, apex acute to obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

(6–)9–17 cm;

stipules reflexed, connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 10–22 mm, foliose becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (7 or)9–15, blades broadly lanceolate- or ovate-oblong or elliptic, 15–60 mm, thin, pinnately veined, apex obtuse, surfaces sparsely villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(1–)3–13-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–25(–30)-flowered;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–9 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 2.

decumbent or humistrate (in fruit), 3–10(–14) cm.

erect, (3.5–)5–14(–19) cm, equaling or shorter than subtending leaf, sometimes exceeding proximal ones, together with racemes usually not longer than distalmost leaves.

1.5–4(–4.5) mm.

3–9 mm.

8–10.5 mm;

calyx (3.4–)4.5–6.7 mm, strigose, tube (2.6–)3–4.3 mm, lobes subulate, (0.8–)1.2–2.9 mm;

corolla pink-purple, or whitish and purple-tipped;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 6.7–8.8 mm.

8–13(–14.2) mm;

calyx campanulate, (4.5–)4.9–5.8 mm, glabrous, tube (4.3–)4.9–5.8 mm, lobes deltate (often reduced to shallow crenulations), 0.2–0.7 mm, ciliate;

corolla white or cream, keel 10.3–12.7 mm.

pendulous, brown, straight or nearly so, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, laterally flattened, (7–)9–15 × 3–4.2 mm, thinly papery, strigose;

stipe 1–1.5(–2) mm.

stramineous, straight, obliquely ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–28 × 6.5–9.5 mm, papery, translucent, glabrous;

stipe 4.5–7 mm.

2–6.

6–9.

= 16.