Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

erect and incurved-ascending, 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.

(2.5–)3–8 cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–5.5 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets (11–)17–25, blades oval-oblong, oblanceolate, narrowly obovate, ovate, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, (3–)4–11 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)15–25(–30)-flowered;

axis (2.5–)6–18(–22) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or incurved, (2–)4–11 cm, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

to 0.8 mm.

0.8–1.8 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.

6.3–7.2 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.2–4.1 mm, strigulose, hairs white, black, or fuscous, tube 2.1–2.6 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes tinged with lavender;

banner abruptly incurved through 100°;

keel 4.6–5.5 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.

stramineous, straight or nearly so, linear-oblong or ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided compressed, 13–22 × 3.2–4.1 mm, incompletely bilocular, papery, black-strigulose;

valves inflexed as nearly complete septum 0.8–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 2.2–5 mm.

7–13.

= 22.