Flora of North America species comparison

strigulose, cinereous, greenish cinereous, or canescent;

from subterranean caudex.

erect or ascending, strigulose, canescent, cinereous, or greenish cinereous.

odd-pinnate, (2–)3–9 cm;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades oblong, cuneate-oblong, or ovate, (3–)5–20 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, surfaces brighter green and, usually, less densely pubescent abaxially;

leaflets jointed or joint obscure in distal ones.

dimorphic, some unifoliolate distally and reduced to phyllodia, continuous with rachis, 2–10 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 1–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (1 or)3–19, blades linear, oblong, cuneate-oblong, or ovate, (3–)4–20 mm, apex acute, obtuse, truncate or retuse, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(6–)10–30-flowered.

(2–)5–30-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 3–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–3.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(4–)6.5–21 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)6.5–30 cm.

0.8–2.5 mm.

12–19 mm;

calyx purplish, cylindric, 4.5–8 mm, strigose, tube 4–6.7 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 0.6–2.3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 35–50°;

keel 9–13 mm, apex bluntly or sharply deltate.

19–35 × (3–)3.5–6 mm;

stipe 5–11 mm.

pendulous, green or reddish becoming stramineous, straight or gently decurved, oblong to oblanceoloid, strongly compressed, flattened laterally, 19–35 × (3–)3.5–6 mm, stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe 4–11 mm.

14–20.