Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, glabrous.

prostrate to ascending, 0–11 cm, internodes often concealed by white-hairy stipules and dense white hairs, villous-tomentulose.

(2–)4–14 cm;

stipules (2–)3–7 mm, papery-scarious proximally, submembranous distally;

leaflets 13–25(or 27), blades elliptic, narrowly oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, (3–)5–23 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

2–15 cm;

stipules sometimes shortly connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 1.5–5.5 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 13–25, blades elliptic or ovate, 2–16 mm, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, surfaces silvery-villous.

(10–)20–95-flowered;

axis 8–30 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 5–15 cm.

0.5–15 cm.

0.6–3 mm.

1–3 mm.

4.8–6 mm;

calyx 3.5–4.4 mm, strigulose, tube 1.8–2.2 mm, lobes narrowly subulate, 1.4–2.2 mm;

corolla whitish, immaculate, drying ochroleucous;

banner abruptly recurved through 45°;

keel 3.8–4.6 mm, apex sharply or bluntly deltate, slightly beaklike.

18–26 mm;

calyx cylindric, 8.3–18 mm, villous, tube 6.5–13.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–5.7 mm;

corolla often pink-purple, sometimes pale;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel concealing style, 14.6–18.6(–19) mm.

stramineous, lunately semi-ovoid or lanceoloid-ovoid (in outline), 4.5–7 × 1.3–2.3 mm, bilocular, stiffly papery, glabrous.

ascending, brightly purple-mottled, usually curved, obliquely ovoid-oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, ventrally grooved proximally, 15–35 × 5.5–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming somewhat woody, strigose or villosulous.

(2–)4–6.

24–30.

= 26.