Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

erect or ascending, sparsely villosulous, often glabrous basally.

(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.

(4.5–)7–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (3–)4–12 mm, submembranous; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)17–29(or 31), blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, (4–)7–32 mm, apex obtuse, subacute, truncate and apiculate, or retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

20–60(–65)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming loosely declined or nodding;

axis (4.5–)6–22(–25) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm.

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

erect, (4–)7–17 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

1.2–4 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.

15.3–18(–19) mm;

calyx cylindric or deeply campanulate, (5.5–)8.7–10.3 mm, villosulous, tube 5.9–8.4 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1.6–3.7 mm;

corolla pale cream, white, or whitish;

keel 13.1–14.7 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.

spreading or loosely pendulous, stramineous, bicarinate, obliquely elliptic, semielliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, bladdery-inflated, laterally compressed, (21–)25–45 × (6–)8–15.5 mm, thin becoming papery, translucent, lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

gynophore 3–11 mm, densely villosulous.

11–18.

= 22.