Flora of North America species comparison

single or few, decumbent-ascending, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

erect or ascending, glabrate to densely strigulose.

4.5–11 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 11–21(or 23), blades obovate-cuneate, ovate, broadly oblong-elliptic, or suborbiculate, 5–20 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate and glaucescent.

2.5–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2–5 mm;

leaflets (5–)9–23, blades linear to narrowly elliptic or oblong, 3–25(–30) mm, apex obtuse to truncate, retuse, or subacute, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes strigose.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(4–)6–30-flowered, 1 per leaf axil;

axis 4–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

erect or ascending, 4.5–22 cm.

0.6–2 mm.

1.5–6 mm.

12–15 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 5.9–7.6 mm, strigulose, tube 4.5–5.6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla reddish purple with white or lilac wing tips;

keel 9.5–10.6 mm.

10–14.3(–15) mm;

calyx subcylindric to campanulate, 4–7.7 mm, strigulose, hairs black and white, tube 3.3–6.4 × 2.4–3.5(–4.4) mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish to ochroleucous, keel immaculate or bright yellow;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel abruptly incurved through 95–120°, blades about as long as claws, (6.7–)7.6–10(–12) mm, apex deltate or triangular.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), green suffused or dotted red becoming stramineous, straight to incurved, oblong or broadly oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 15–37 × 8–21 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming papery, stiffly leathery, or subligneous, glabrous;

septum to 3.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–8 mm.

pale green, not mottled, not stramineous, straight, oblong to ellipsoid, strongly laterally compressed, 17–30(–35) × (3–)3.5–6.5 mm, papery, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe 6–16 mm.

(27–)30–36.

11–22.

= 22, 24.