Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to erect, 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.

(6–)8–20(–24) cm;

stipules 3–8 mm, submembranous early becoming papery;

leaflets (9–)17–25, blades oblong, elliptic, rhombic-ovate, or rhombic-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, (7–)10–20(–28) mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(9–)15–30-flowered, flowers spreading to nodding;

axis (3–)5–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect, 8–16 cm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

1.5–5 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.

18.5–20.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 9.6–12.2 mm, strigulose, tube 7–9 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, (1–)2–3.2 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 13–15 mm.

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

erect, green, sometimes suffused or speckled with purple, becoming stramineous, straight or nearly so, subsymmetrically oblong- or ovoid-ellipsoid, moderately inflated, obcompressed, both sutures grooved, 11–22 × (4.5–)6.5–10 mm, base truncate, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

septum 1.4–1.8 mm wide;

stipe 12–18 mm.

21–32.

= 22.