Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, softly villous-hirsute or shaggy-villous.

usually erect or ascending, sometimes diffuse, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

4–13 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing or distinct at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (2–)3–12 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflet blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 4–33 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous-pilose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

compound, unifoliolate, or reduced to phyllodia, 2.5–14.8 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1–5 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets (0 or 1–)3–5, lateral blades linear to oblong, 3–20 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrate abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet longer, decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

14–30-flowered;

axis 3–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely 5–12(–14)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 4–12(–15) cm.

erect, 11–27(–29) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

2–5.5 mm.

(16–)18–25 mm;

calyx 7–12.5 mm, sparsely villous, tube 4.7–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–4.5 mm;

corolla keel 12–15 mm.

19–26 mm;

calyx 6–9.6 mm, sparsely strigose to glabrate, tube 5.2–7.5 × 3.6 mm, lobes triangular, (0.8–)1.1–2.1 mm;

corolla pale pink-purple, wing tips paler or white, keel maculate;

keel 12.2–13 mm.

stramineous, 17–32 × 3.5–5.5 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery or leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.6–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–11 mm.

deflexed (through curvature of pedicel), stramineous, straight (and subsymmetric) or slightly decurved, oblong-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 12–25 × 5–7.5 mm, leathery-woody, terminal cusp 2.5–4 mm), glabrous;

sessile.

18–20.

= 22.

= 22.