Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

decumbent or weakly ascending, strigulose-villosulous.

(3–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate and scarious-papery at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–5 mm;

leaflets (17–)21–29, blades flat or loosely folded, oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic, 3–13 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

4–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–4 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (11–)15–19(–23), blades oval, elliptic-obovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)5–18 mm, apex obtuse or shallowly retuse, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely 5–9-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(2–)4–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, (3–)4–6.5 cm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

2–4 mm.

5.8–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.4–4.3 mm, strigulose, hairs black and/or white, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2 mm;

corolla whitish or, sometimes, greenish ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner abruptly incurved through 90°;

keel 4.2–5.6 mm.

9.5–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.7–7.8 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 3.7–3.9 mm, lobes slenderly subulate, 2.8–4 mm;

corolla greenish white, often tinged or veined dull lilac;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.8–8.9 mm, apex triangular, subacute, often obscurely beaklike.

stramineous, straight or slightly incurved or decurved, linear-oblong or linear-oblanceolate, 3-sided compressed, 15–30 × (2.5–)3–4 mm, bilocular, papery, glabrous;

valves inflexed as complete septum 1.4–1.9 mm wide;

stipe 1.5–2.5 mm.

loosely spreading, declined, or ascending, pale green and purple-cheeked becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 25–40 × 13–17 mm, thin, translucent, lustrous, glabrous or strigulose.

12–16.

(27–)30–39.