Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

to 6 cm, internodes ± obscured by stipules, densely villosulous and hirsute.

(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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 3.5–7 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 11–17, blades elliptic to obovate, 2–14 mm, apex short-acuminate to acute, surfaces strigulose-villosulous, hairs ascending, dull.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

2–3 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.

18–22.5 mm;

calyx cylindric, 8.4–12 mm, villous, tube 6.2–7.5 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla whitish suffused with pale purple, keel tip purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–13.3 mm, 4.5–9 mm shorter than banner.

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 (not humistrate), sessile or substipitate, incurved, ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 10–20 × 5–10 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, densely hirsute, hairs lustrous, concealing surface, longest 2–2.5 mm.

14–16.