Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

erect, ascending, or decumbent, 2–8 cm underground, 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.

1.5–8.5 cm;

stipules 2–5.5 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets 9–23, blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 1–33 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose or glabrous;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

ascending, 1–6.5 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

1.4–4.3 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.

15–19 mm;

calyx cylindric, 5.5–8.7 mm, strigose, tube 4.7–7 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2.8 mm;

corolla white to yellowish and tinged faintly with pink, sometimes lightly suffused with pink-purple on drying, keel tip faintly to darkly purple;

keel 10.2–13 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.

pendulous, green or purple-mottled becoming stramineous or brownish, strongly incurved or coiled, obliquely oblong, sharply 4-sided compressed, 20–40 × 6–10 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous or strigose.

28–38.