Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, glabrate to densely strigulose.

erect, 0–7 cm underground, glabrous.

2.5–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2–5 mm;

leaflets (5–)9–23, blades linear to narrowly elliptic or oblong, 3–25(–30) mm, apex obtuse to truncate, retuse, or subacute, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes strigose.

crowded, loosely imbricate, 1.5–6.5 cm;

stipules 2–15 mm, membranous;

leaflet blade ovate, orbiculate, or cordate, 15–65 mm, apex obtuse to rounded or retuse, surfaces glabrous.

(4–)6–30-flowered, 1 per leaf axil;

axis 4–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–12-flowered;

axis 0.4–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect or ascending, 4.5–22 cm.

erect, 0.5–4.5 cm.

1.5–6 mm.

1–5 mm.

10–14.3(–15) mm;

calyx subcylindric to campanulate, 4–7.7 mm, strigulose, hairs black and white, tube 3.3–6.4 × 2.4–3.5(–4.4) mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish to ochroleucous, keel immaculate or bright yellow;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel abruptly incurved through 95–120°, blades about as long as claws, (6.7–)7.6–10(–12) mm, apex deltate or triangular.

17–27 mm;

calyx 10–17 mm, black-strigose, tube 8.3–13 mm, lobes linear to subulate, 1.5–3.8 mm;

corolla keel 14.2–18.5 mm.

pale green, not mottled, not stramineous, straight, oblong to ellipsoid, strongly laterally compressed, 17–30(–35) × (3–)3.5–6.5 mm, papery, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe 6–16 mm.

pale green and purple-speckled becoming stramineous, straight, 25–35 × 11–16 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe 10–23 mm.

11–22.

= 22, 24.

= 24.