Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, villosulous.

erect or ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

(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.

2–9 cm;

stipules 1.5 mm, membranous;

leaflets 7–17, blades obovate-cuneate, obcordate to lanceolate, narrowly oblong, or linear-elliptic, 3–16 mm, apex retuse, truncate, obtuse, or acute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

10–25-flowered;

axis 5–12.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–12-flowered, subcapitate, flowers loosely spreading;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

erect, 5.5–18 cm.

erect, incurved-ascending, or divaricate, 2.5–7 cm.

1–4.5 mm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

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.

5–11.8 mm;

calyx 2.7–5.4 mm, strigulose-villosulous, tube 1.6–3.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 0.9–2.3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, keel maculate;

banner recurved 30–40°;

keel 3.4–6.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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.

ascending, spreading, or declined, stramineous, straight or curved, linear- or narrowly lanceoloid-oblong, obscurely 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, (6–)10–50 × 1.7–3.5 mm, base round, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, strigulose, villosulous, or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle;

stipe 2.7–5 mm.

(11–)13–21.

5–14.