Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

decumbent to ascending, diffuse, leafless basally, 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.

3.5–5.5 cm;

stipules 1–6 mm, membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous with membranous margins at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–13, blades oblong-elliptic, narrowly oblanceolate, or linear-oblong, 3–12 mm, apex obtuse or obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

subcapitate, loosely 2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

ascending, 1.2–2.5 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

0.6–1.5 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.

(17–)18.1–19.5(–20) mm;

calyx cylindric, (9.5–10–11.5(–13) mm, strigose, tube 7–8.2 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate-subulate, 2.4–4.5 mm;

corolla white or whitish, keel maculate;

banner incurved through 35°;

keel 13.1–13.6 mm.

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.

ascending (humistrate), green, incurved through 0.25–0.5+ spiral, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 25–40 × 8.5–10.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming subligneous, prominently cross-reticulate, glabrous.

48–51.