Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

usually erect or ascending, sometimes diffuse, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

(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.

compound, unifoliolate, or reduced to phyllodia, 2.5–14.8 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1–5 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets (0 or 1–)3–5, lateral blades linear to oblong, 3–20 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrate abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet longer, decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely 5–12(–14)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect, 11–27(–29) cm.

to 0.8 mm.

2–5.5 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.

19–26 mm;

calyx 6–9.6 mm, sparsely strigose to glabrate, tube 5.2–7.5 × 3.6 mm, lobes triangular, (0.8–)1.1–2.1 mm;

corolla pale pink-purple, wing tips paler or white, keel maculate;

keel 12.2–13 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.

deflexed (through curvature of pedicel), stramineous, straight (and subsymmetric) or slightly decurved, oblong-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 12–25 × 5–7.5 mm, leathery-woody, terminal cusp 2.5–4 mm), glabrous;

sessile.

18–20.

= 22.