Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, with ascending tips, silvery green hairy.

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

3–5.2 cm;

stipules triangular, 1–4.5 mm, papery;

leaflets: terminal ones jointed, blades flat, oval to obovate, (5.7–)8–9.3(–15) × (4.5–)6–7.5(–12) mm, surfaces strigose.

mostly reduced to phyllodia, few with leaflets, 0.8–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing throughout, 2–7 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets 0(or 3–5), blades (phyllodia) oblanceolate to linear, 4–30 mm, apex acute, mucronate, or spinulose, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet often confluent with rachis.

2–7-flowered;

axis 0.5–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm, hyaline;

bracteoles 0.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

prostrate, 1.3–2.5 cm, shorter than subtending leaf.

erect or ascending, outer ones often prostrate in fruit, 0.4–9 cm.

2.5–3 mm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

20–23 mm;

calyx 11.4–12.7 mm, tube 8.7–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 2.7–3.5 mm;

corolla white tinged pinkish, fading cream.

5.7–9.5 mm;

calyx 2.6–5 mm, strigose, tube 1.9–3.4 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–2.5 mm;

corolla pink purplish to ochroleucous or whitish;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 4–6 mm.

often red-mottled, 37–47 × 23–33 mm (when pressed), hairy;

sessile on thickened gynophore 1.2–1.5 mm.

erect, pale green tinged purple, with red-mottle, becoming brown or stramineous, straight or slightly curved, lanceoloid to lanceoloid-oblong, 2-sided, laterally compressed, 4–13 × 1.5–3.3 mm, papery, usually strigose, rarely glabrous;

sessile.

26.

4–12.

= 24.