Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

mostly prostrate with upturned tips, strigose, strigulose, pilose, pilosulous, villous, or subtomentose.

(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.

1–6(–7.5) cm;

stipules 1.5–10(–11) mm, submembranous becoming scarious;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate to obovate, (2–)3–17(–19) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

3–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(2–)4–11 cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 1–9 cm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

0.4–2.2 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.

5.9–11.8 mm;

calyx 3.2–7.6(–8.8) mm, strigose, tube 2.1–4(–4.1) mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate, filiform-setaceous, or subulate, (1–)1.2–4.5(–5) mm;

corolla greenish to ochroleucous or purple, banner often suffused, margined, or veined purplish, pink, or lilac-purple, sometimes wing tips whitish;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel 5.1–10 mm.

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.

ascending to spreading, stramineous or brown, incurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, ovoid, obovoid, linear-oblong, oblanceoloid, semi-ovoid, or semi-ellipsoid, compressed, 6–20 × 3.5–6.5 mm, thickly fleshy becoming leathery or papery, strigulose or villosulous.

12–16.

6–26.