Flora of North America species comparison

erect or stiffly ascending, stout, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, pilose and tomentulose.

few or single, prostrate, 2–10 cm underground, densely strigulose.

(9–)13–35 cm;

stipules distinct 6–17 mm, herbaceous;

leaflet blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, ovate, oblong-elliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, (7–)10–55 mm, apex acute or abruptly short-acuminate, often callous-apiculate, surfaces pilose and tomentulose.

1–3(–4.5) cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1–2.5 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–13, blades obovate, cuneate-obovate, or oblanceolate, 3–9(–14) mm, apex obtuse or retuse to obcordate, surfaces ashy-strigose.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(4–)6–10(–13)-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.5–1.5(–2) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, (8–)10–27 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

spreading or incurved, (0.3–)0.5–2.2 cm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

1–2 mm.

(14.4–)15.5–22 mm;

calyx (7.8–)10–14.7 mm, silky-pilose or tomentulose, tube (6–)7–8.7 mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate or linear-lanceolate, 3–6.5 mm;

corolla immaculate;

keel (11.5–)12–15.1 mm.

6.4–8.3 mm;

calyx (2.8–)4.1–5 mm, strigulose, tube 1.9–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, (0.9–)1.5–2.3 mm;

corolla dull stramineous, banner veins lilac, keel tip maculate;

keel 8.8–8.3 mm.

stiffly erect, becoming brownish stramineous then blackish, 15–25 × 8–13 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous.

spreading or ascending (humistrate), green or purplish becoming stramineous, straight, ovoid or ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 20–35 × 12–26 mm, bilocular, thin becoming papery, sparsely strigulose.

25–32.

= 22.