Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate to decumbent or ascending, strigulose.

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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, subherbaceous or papery;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(or 23), blades linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–20(–24) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate 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.

(10–)15–50-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or divaricate, 3–9(–12) cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)5–12 cm.

1–2.3 mm.

0.3–1.2 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.

4.2–6.2 mm;

calyx 2.5–3.6 mm, strigulose, tube 1.7–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla yellow to green, suffused pale lavender, fading ochroleucous, wing tips pale or white;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.7–5 mm, apex round.

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, narrowly lanceoloid or linear-ellipsoid, 6–12 × 1.3–2 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

32–42.

6–10.

= 28.