Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, 0–2.5 cm underground, sparsely villosulous or glabrous proximally.

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.

(3–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, (1.5–)2–6 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades narrowly oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, linear-oblong, or oblong-obovate, (3–)5–20(–23) mm, apex acute to subobtuse or retuse, surfaces villosulous.

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

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–12(–14)-flowered;

axis 2.5–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.3–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect or narrowly ascending, (4.5–)6–15 cm.

1.5–4(–4.5) mm.

1–3.5 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.

15.4–18.8 mm;

calyx 8.8–11.8 mm, strigulose, tube 6.3–7.5 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 2.5–4.3 mm;

corolla white or lilac-tinged, drying ochroleucous;

keel (9.8–)10–12.4 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.

ascending to divaricately spreading or somewhat declined, set at angle to stipe, stramineous or brownish, straight or slightly incurved, inflated, scarcely bladdery, (10–)13–24(–32) × 6–12 mm, thinly fleshy, glabrous;

stipe (4–)5–12 mm.

2–6.

= 22.