Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending;

strigose.

single or few to several.

most reduced to phyllodia, continuous with rachis, 2–10 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 2–13 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 0–(1–13), blades linear, elliptic, or oblong, 1–15 mm, apex acute to obtuse or emarginate, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

odd-pinnate, sessile or subsessile to petiolate;

leaflets (0–)3–21, or lateral leaflets fewer and terminal leaflet continuous with rachis.

6–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 3–30 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.3–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely flowered, flowers ascending, spreading, declined, or nodding.

erect or incurved-ascending, 6–23 cm.

1.5–3.5 mm.

10–15.5 mm;

calyx suffused with purple or very pale, shortly cylindric, 4.1–8(–8.5) mm, white-strigose, tube 3.4–5.2(–6) × 1.9–2.9(–3.4) mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.6–2.2 mm;

corolla pale pink or whitish to pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel 9–12.3 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, not beaklike.

whitish, ochroleucous, yellow, or pink-purple to dull lavender or purple, petals often strongly recurved, banner recurved through 30–130°, keel apex obtuse, acute, or triangular, sometimes beaklike.

tubes usually campanulate, rarely cylindric.

pendulous, stramineous or suffused with purple or mottled, slightly curved or straight, oblong to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 14–32 × 4–8 mm, stiffly papery, glabrous or strigose;

stipe 0–0.6 mm.

persistent or eventually deciduous, continuous with receptacle, sessile, subsessile, or stipitate, usually declined or pendulous, rarely spreading, ascending, or erect, linear-oblong to linear-oblanceoloid, ellipsoid, ovoid-ellipsoid and bladdery, compressed laterally or dorsiventrally, or 3-sided or 4-sided, usually unilocular, rarely semibilocular.

16–26.

8–42.

basifixed.

distinct or connate (±) proximally.

= 22.