Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

decumbent to weakly ascending;

silvery-strigulose.

(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.

2–10(–12.5) cm;

stipules 1.8–3.5 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous;

leaflets (3 or)5–11, blades rhombic-elliptic, obovate-cuneate, or suborbiculate, 3–18 mm, apex obtuse or shallowly retuse, surfaces silvery-strigulose, appearing frosted.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely 3–16-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0.8–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(2–)4–11 cm.

erect or divaricate and ascending, often humistrate in fruit, 1.5–7(–10) cm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

0.6–3 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.

7–12.5 mm;

calyx 4–7.2 mm, strigulose, tube 2.5–4.4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–2.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45;

keel 6.8–10.7 mm, apex round.

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.

declined or pendulous, stramineous or brownish, straight or incurved, oblong, or broadly and plumply so to oblong-ellipsoid or clavately oblong, (13–)15–28(–32) × 3.5–8.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, densely strigulose;

gynophore to 0.8 mm.

12–16.

20–30.