Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect, strigulose-cinereous.

(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.

2–7 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–9, blades linear to linear-oblong, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3–)7–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)4–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(2–)4–11 cm.

divaricate and incurved-ascending, (3–)5–15 cm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

1–2 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.

6.3–8 mm;

calyx 2.6–3.2 mm, strigose, tube 2.3–2.8 mm, lobes deltate or subulate, 0.3–0.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 6.3–7.4 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.

pendulous, pale green, often faintly purple-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or falcately decurved, narrowly oblong or lanceoloid-oblong, 12–25 × 3–4(–5) mm, papery, strigulose;

stipe 4–8 mm.

12–16.

(6–)8–14.