Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

obscured by stipules.

(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.

1.5–7.5 cm;

stipules 3–6.5 mm, membranous, pallid, with green midrib;

leaflets 3 or 5, blades oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 5–17 mm, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces strigose.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

1–3-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis to 0.3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

(2–)4–11 cm.

ascending, prostrate in fruit, 0.5–3.5 cm, mostly shorter than leaves.

0.6–1.5 mm.

1.5–3 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.

24.5–32 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–17 mm, strigulose, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 10.2–13 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple or purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 21.5–24.5 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, stramineous, ± straight, obliquely lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 20–35(–40) × 8–12 mm, unilocular, valves much less than 1 mm thick, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose, hairs appressed, 0.5–0.7 mm.

12–16.

38–54.