Flora of North America species comparison

and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian.

several to many.

0.8–2.2 cm;

stipules uniform, connate to 1/2 their length, 1–1.5(–2.5) mm;

leaflets usually 5, blades 3–13 mm.

odd-pinnate, sessile or subsessile to petiolate;

leaflets (3–)5–21, jointed or decurrent.

sometimes paired, loosely or remotely flowered, flowers ascending, spreading, or declined.

0.1–0.3 cm.

4.8–5.2 mm;

calyx 2.4–3.3 mm, tube 1.8–2.1 mm, lobes subulate, spinulose, 0.7–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish.

pink-purple, whitish, or ochroleucous, banner recurved through 40–90°, keel apex obtuse.

tubes usually campanulate, sometimes turbinate-campanulate.

obliquely ovoid, 3–4 × 1.8–2.4 mm.

eventually deciduous or persistent, sessile or stipitate, deflexed, declined, or pendulous, linear, oblong, ellipsoid, lenticular, or ovoid- or obovoid-subglobose, compressed laterally or bladdery-inflated, unilocular.

2 or 3.

2–9(–11).

usually basifixed, rarely malpighian (in some varieties of A. kentrophyta).

connate or distinct at distal nodes.

= 24.