Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, strigulose.

prostrate or diffuse, 1–6+ cm underground, minutely strigulose.

4–10(–13) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 0.5–4.5 mm;

leaflets 13–21, blades linear to linear-filiform, (5–)7–15(–17) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose or adaxially glabrous;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

1–6.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at least at proximal nodes, often becoming anthocyanic and somewhat enlarged at distal nodes, 3–6 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflet blades elliptic to oblong, 1.5–8 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

becoming loosely (3–)4–14(–18)-flowered;

axis 1–8.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

1–5-flowered;

axis 1–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–15(–22) cm.

ascending, (2.5–)3–10 cm.

ascending, 1.2–3.5 mm.

1.8–4 mm.

12.5–15.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, obliquely cuneate, 4–6.7 mm, silky-villous, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 3.2–5.8 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm;

corolla white, creamy white, or purplish, banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8–11 mm, apex bluntly deltate or triangular, often slightly beaklike.

12–20 mm;

calyx 6–6.7 mm, black-strigose to glabrate, tube 3–4.7 mm, lobes triangular-acuminate to linear, 1–2.5 mm;

corolla keel 11.2–13.7 mm.

pale green, sometimes also red-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly curved, obliquely obovoid, semi-obovoid, or semi-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–48 × 5–16(–22) mm, papery-membranous, translucent, apex differentiated into broad, low-deltoid beak, glabrous;

stipe (5–)8–12 mm.

pale green with purple dots, curved in 0.5–1 spiral, laterally compressed, 30–50 × 50–75 mm, papery-membranous, semitransparent, minutely strigose;

gynophore 4–10 mm.

10–20.

= 22.