Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

(2–)4–17 cm;

stipules 4–13(–16) mm, papery-scarious, pallid;

leaflet blades oblong to elliptic, (4–)7–27(–33) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces sparsely to moderately strigose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

1.5–5 cm;

stipules 1–2.5 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 5–9, blades cuneate-obovate to narrowly cuneate, 2–10 mm, apex retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–7-flowered, flowers spreading to declined;

axis 0.2–1(–1.3) cm in fruit, scarcely elongating;

bracts 0.7–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3–)4–14(–16.5) cm.

ascending becoming declined or divaricate, 2–7 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

0.4–2.2 mm.

11.5–19.5 mm;

calyx [4.8–]5.6–10.5 mm, strigulose, tube [3–]4–7 × 2–3.2 mm, lobes subulate or subulate-setaceous, 0.4–4.2 mm;

corolla keel 8–15 mm.

8.9–12 mm;

calyx 2.8–4 mm, strigulose, tube 2.1–2.6 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.6–1.4 mm;

corolla whitish, banner and keel tips purple;

banner recurved through 20°;

keel 7.4–9.1 mm, apex round.

stramineous, ovoid-, oblong-, or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, or narrowly oblong, [5.5–]6–12 × 2.3–4 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose;

stipe 0–1.8 mm.

horizontal or declined, green or faintly brown-mottled becoming brownish, incurved, crescentic and linear, obscurely 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 17–25 × (1.6–)2–3.1 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, base and apex acuminate, strigulose; bearing seeds near middle;

gynophore pseudostipitate, slender, 1.4–2.5 mm.

6–12.

= 22.