Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules.

erect or ascending, fistulose, glabrous.

palmately trifoliolate, 0.7–3 cm;

stipules 6–10 mm, hyaline;

leaflet blades spatulate to obovate, 2.5–10 mm, apex subacute to obtuse, surfaces silvery-pilose.

8–18 cm;

stipules distinct, (2–)3.5–7.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (19 or)21–29, blades ovate-oblong to lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, (4–)8–21 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, usually apiculate, surfaces sparsely strigose.

1–3-flowered, subcapitate;

axis obsolete;

bracts sometimes tridentate, 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(13–)18–25-flowered, flowers spreading or weakly ascending;

axis (5–)9–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles (0–)2.

± obsolete.

erect or incurved-ascending, (6–)12–20 cm.

± subobsolete.

0.9–3.5 mm.

12.5–17.5 mm;

calyx 7.3–10.7 mm, silvery-villous, tube 5.8–7.5 mm, lobes linear to narrowly subulate, 1.5–3.7 mm;

corolla whitish to ochroleucous, petals villous abaxially;

banner differentiated into blade and claw, with shoulderlike projections at middle;

keel 10–13 mm.

(9.5–)12–15 mm;

calyx purplish, campanulate, (4.7–)5–7.2 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube (2.7–)3–4.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2.7 mm;

corolla whitish, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 45°, 12–15 mm;

keel 8–10.5 mm, apex blunt and narrowly deltate.

straight or slightly decurved, narrowly ellipsoid, 7–10 × 2.5–3.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, densely strigose-hirsutulous.

ascending, pale green and purplish-tinged becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely semi ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, (15–)20–28 × (8–)10–15(–18) mm, beak prominent, papery, sparsely strigulose.

8 or 9.

29–40.