Flora of North America species comparison

usually erect, sometimes decumbent and ascending, green or purplish, fistulose when stout, 1–7+ cm underground, strigose.

decumbent to weakly ascending;

silvery-strigulose.

(3–)5–25(–35) cm;

stipules 3–18 mm, membranous early becoming scarious;

leaflets (7–)13–35, blades lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong, or elliptic, (5–)6–45(–52) mm, apex obtuse, apiculate, or truncate-emarginate, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

2–10(–12.5) cm;

stipules 1.8–3.5 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous;

leaflets (3 or)5–11, blades rhombic-elliptic, obovate-cuneate, or suborbiculate, 3–18 mm, apex obtuse or shallowly retuse, surfaces silvery-strigulose, appearing frosted.

20–100+-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 2.5–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely 3–16-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0.8–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2.5–)4–22 cm.

erect or divaricate and ascending, often humistrate in fruit, 1.5–7(–10) cm.

1.2–3.5(–4) mm.

0.6–3 mm.

11.3–17(–17.5) mm;

calyx short-cylindric, (4.6–)5.5–10.5(–11) mm, strigose or pilosulous, tube 4–8.5 mm, lobes subulate or triangular, 1.2–4.4(–5) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, greenish white, or stramineous;

keel (9.5–)10.2–13.6 mm.

7–12.5 mm;

calyx 4–7.2 mm, strigulose, tube 2.5–4.4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–2.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45;

keel 6.8–10.7 mm, apex round.

brown then blackish, straight or incurved, cylindroid, terete, (9–)10–20 × 2.9–5.2 mm, somewhat fleshy becoming stiffly papery or leathery, usually strigose, strigulose, glabrate, or glabrous, rarely puberulent;

sessile or subsessile.

declined or pendulous, stramineous or brownish, straight or incurved, oblong, or broadly and plumply so to oblong-ellipsoid or clavately oblong, (13–)15–28(–32) × 3.5–8.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, densely strigulose;

gynophore to 0.8 mm.

(16–)18–26(–28).

20–30.