Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

single or to 3, prostrate to ascending or erect, 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–)2–10.5(–12) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–4 mm, thinly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets (3–)7–13, blades linear, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or linear-elliptic, rarely obcordate, 3–18 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved-ascending, 0.6–2.5 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.

5–7.6 mm;

calyx campanulate, (2–)2.7–3.8(–4) mm, strigose, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish, suffused with purple, or pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.8–4.8 mm, apex obtuse, deltate.

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.

spreading to declined, green or suffused purple, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid, bladdery-inflated, 15–24 × 6–12 mm, unilocular or semibilocular, thin becoming papery, strigose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 0.2–1.5 mm wide.

7–18.