Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending, villous-villosulous.

(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.

3–8.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes, (1.5–)2–6.5 mm;

leaflets 13–21, blades narrowly oblong- or cuneate-oblanceolate, (4–)6–20(–23) mm, apex truncate-retuse to obtuse, surfaces usually villosulous, sometimes glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)15–25(–30)-flowered, 1 per leaf axil;

axis 3–10.5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, (3–)6–14 cm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

1.3–3.5 mm, densely villous.

(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.

(11.5–)13–17.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, obliquely cuneate, 6.4–9.7 mm, silky-villous, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 5.2–7 × 3.5–4.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.9–3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or yellowish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (9.5–)10.1–12.4 mm, apex sharply deltate.

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

green and purple-mottled becoming brown or stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear-oblong, strongly laterally compressed, 27–43 × 3.4–5, thinly fleshy becoming papery, strigulose or glabrous;

stipe 8–14 mm.

(15–)19–25(–27).

= 22.