Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–6 cm;

stipules 3–7 mm;

leaflets 3–11, blades obovate to oblanceolate or orbiculate, 1.5–8 mm, apex round to obtuse or acute, surfaces strigose.

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.

2–10-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

axis 3–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–3.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 0.4–3 cm.

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

ascending, 1–2 mm.

0.8–2.5 mm.

10–15.5(–17.5) mm;

calyx cylindric, 5.5–8.9 mm, strigose, tube 4.1–6.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.4–1.7 mm;

corolla usually white or ochroleucous, sometimes fading yellowish, suffused with purple, sometimes purple, keel tip maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (9–)10–12.5 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.

ascending, green, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or lanceoloid-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, (8–)11–19 × 3–8 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, thinly fleshy becoming papery, sometimes incipiently alveolate-spongy, walls much less than 1 mm thick, strigose.

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.

18–33.

14–20.