Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, pilosulous.

prostrate or decumbent, sparsely strigulose.

both cauline and in sub-basal cluster, (5–)7–20 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, (3–)5–11 mm, fragile, submembranous early becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 25–37, blades linear-elliptic, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or ovate-oblong, 5–27 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or retuse, surfaces pilosulous, sometimes glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet often continuous with rachis.

1.5–10.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, mostly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets 9–19, blades obovate, oblong-oblanceolate to -obovate, obcordate, suborbiculate, or elliptic, 2–15 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(6–)10–30-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (3–)5–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–9.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(1 or)2–10-flowered, flowers ascending or spreading;

axis (0–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 12–30 cm, together with racemes longer than stems.

ascending, 1–7.5 cm.

1–3.7 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

18–23 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, (10–)11–15 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube (5.7–)6–7.9 × 3.6–4.8 mm, lobes lanceolate or lanceolate-caudate, (2.6–)4.6–6.7(–7.5) mm;

corolla cream, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 13.4–15.6 mm.

5.5–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3–4.3 mm, strigulose, hair white or partly black, tube 1.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla white, banner with pink veins;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

brownish stramineous, ± straight, broadly oblong-ovoid to narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 11–22 × 4.5–7.2 mm, unilocular or sub-bilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, usually villous-pilose or glabrescent, rarely glabrous;

septum to 1 mm wide;

sessile.

ascending, spreading, or loosely declined, green, purplish, or purple- or red-mottled becoming brownish or stramineous, incurved, narrowly oblanceoloid or obliquely semi-ovoid, ± inflated, ± 3-sided compressed, (5–)6–26 × 2.7–5 mm, thin becoming papery, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

gynophore conical, short.

6–15.