Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

usually decumbent or ascending, sometimes erect, 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.

4–11 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–10 mm;

leaflets (5–)9–15(–21), blades linear, filiform, or linear-oblanceolate, 15–70 mm, margins involute, apex acuminate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

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.

(7–)12–30-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–13(–17) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, (2–)3.5–8(–10.5) cm.

1–2.5 mm.

2–3(–3.5) 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.

(16–)21–24(–27) mm;

calyx 8–12 mm, strigulose, tube 6.5–9 × 2.8–4.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–3 mm;

corolla white or ochroleucous, drying yellowish;

keel 13.8–16 mm.

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

declined or deflexed, stramineous or brown, straight or slightly decurved, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid to clavate-ellipsoid, ± obcompressed, (10–)15–25 × (4.5–)5–8 mm, woody, glabrous;

sessile.

10–14.

(23–)26–32.

= 22.