Flora of North America species comparison

slender, ascending, strigulose.

decumbent or weakly ascending, strigulose-villosulous.

2–4 cm;

stipules connate, bidentate, 2.5–5 mm, membranous;

leaflets 9–15, blades ovate-elliptic, 2.5–8 mm, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces strigulose.

4–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–4 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (11–)15–19(–23), blades oval, elliptic-obovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)5–18 mm, apex obtuse or shallowly retuse, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

(1 or)2–4-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–4 cm in fruit.

loosely 5–9-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, very slender, 1.5–8 cm.

incurved-ascending, (3–)4–6.5 cm.

2–4 mm.

5–6.2 mm;

calyx 2–3.5 mm, strigose, hairs white or black, tube 1.2–2.5 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 0.7–1.2 mm.

9.5–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.7–7.8 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 3.7–3.9 mm, lobes slenderly subulate, 2.8–4 mm;

corolla greenish white, often tinged or veined dull lilac;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.8–8.9 mm, apex triangular, subacute, often obscurely beaklike.

spreading or pendulous, red-mottled, ellipsoid, subinflated, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, 8–14 × 4–6 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose or glabrous;

gynophore 0.5–0.8 mm.

loosely spreading, declined, or ascending, pale green and purple-cheeked becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 25–40 × 13–17 mm, thin, translucent, lustrous, glabrous or strigulose.

16–18.

(27–)30–39.