Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, villosulous.

aerial tips prostrate or ascending, nodes short, strigulose-pilosulous and ashy gray.

(4–)5–14 cm;

stipules 3–5 mm, papery;

leaflets (17–)21–27(–33), blades oblong, obovate-cuneate, or oblanceolate, 4–14 mm, apex obtuse to truncate-retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so adaxially.

1.5–7(–8) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets mostly crowded, blades folded or involute, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

10–25-flowered;

axis 5–12.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely (1–)3–6-flowered, (0–)1–10(–15) mm (in fruit);

bracts 1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 5.5–18 cm.

procumbent (in fruit), 1–3(–6.5) cm.

1–4.5 mm.

0.5–1.5 mm, (1–2 mm in fruit).

6.5–8.5 mm;

calyx 5–7.5 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–3.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.7–1.1 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel 8.2–12 mm.

10.7–12.5 mm;

calyx 5–7 mm, strigulose, tube 3–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, lilac, or whitish, keel apex maculate, banner veined and suffused with lilac;

keel 9–10 mm.

pendulous, stramineous, lunate, lanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, lateral face flat, dorsal face grooved, (16–)20–30 × 3–4.5(–5) mm, length 5–7 times width, stiffly papery, villosulous;

septum 2–3 mm wide;

stipe (4–)7–12(–14) mm.

slightly incurved, 6.5–11.5 × 3–3.5 mm, thinly submembranous, strigulose.

(11–)13–21.

6–9.