Flora of North America species comparison

erect or decumbent to ascending, ± strongly flexuose aboveground, (0–)2–6 cm underground, strigulose.

erect or ascending, softly villous-hirsute or shaggy-villous.

30–100 cm;

stipules (1–)2–5 mm, membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5–)9–15, blades elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate, or linear, 3–25 mm, apex usually obtuse or retuse, rarely subacute, surfaces strigulose.

4–13 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing or distinct at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (2–)3–12 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflet blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 4–33 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous-pilose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(5–)8–20(–26)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis (1.5–)3–12(–17) cm in fruit, elongating;

bracts 2–3.5(–5) mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

14–30-flowered;

axis 3–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or divaricate, 3–9(–12) cm.

erect, 4–12(–15) cm.

1–2.3 mm.

1.5–5 mm.

(12–)13.5–18 mm;

calyx pallid or purplish, cylindric or deeply campanulate, (5.8–)7.5–9 mm, strigulose, tube (4.6–)5.8–7.5 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1.2–1.8 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple and wing tips white, rarely white throughout;

keel 10.6–13.3 mm.

(16–)18–25 mm;

calyx 7–12.5 mm, sparsely villous, tube 4.7–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–4.5 mm;

corolla keel 12–15 mm.

promptly deciduous, deflexed, red- or brownish-mottled becoming stramineous or brownish, usually ± sigmoid-arcuate, rarely straight, lanceoloid-ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 20–55 × (5–)6–10 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigulose.

stramineous, 17–32 × 3.5–5.5 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery or leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.6–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–11 mm.

32–42.

= 22.