Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

decumbent to ascending or erect, sparsely strigulose.

erect, 1–4 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, membranous becoming papery;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades linear to narrowly elliptic, 1–5 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet often decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 4–13 mm;

leaflets 5–13, blades linear-oblong, 10–45(–60) mm, margins flat, elevated, apex obtuse to apiculate, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

3–7-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.2–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–20-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 2–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

erect, 0.5–3.5 cm, together with racemes subequal to or ± surpassing leaves.

erect and incurved-ascending, 3–12 cm.

1–2.5 mm.

1.5–4 mm.

5–6.5 mm;

calyx 2.3–3 mm, strigose, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–1 mm;

corolla pink-purple or white;

keel 3.7–4.4 mm.

24–30 mm;

calyx 10–14.5 mm, strigose, tube 7–10.2 × 4.5–6.2 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4.5 mm;

corolla white, concolorous;

keel 13.6–20.2 mm.

green with purple mottling, slightly curved, subglobose, 10–17 × 7–11 mm, papery-membranous, strigose.

deflexed, brown or stramineous, straight, oblong-ellipsoid, subterete becoming laterally compressed, 13–33 × 6–12 mm, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous or minutely puberulent;

sessile.

10–14.

20–28.