Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

erect or ascending, 0.5–2.2 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.

(6–)8–14(–18) cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 3–12 mm, white-papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 7–15, blades linear, 10–43 mm, apex acute, surfaces strigulose;

terminal leaflet jointed to rachis.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–25(–30)-flowered, flowers becoming twisted through 180°;

axis 7–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

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

8–15 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

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.

(12–)14–18 mm;

calyx campanulate, (4–)7–9 mm, strigose, tube 3.5–7 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (0.5–)1.2–2.5 mm;

corolla lemon yellow, concolorous;

banner recurved through 80–110°;

keel apex bluntly or sharply 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.

inverted from flexion of pedicels, ascending to erect, green becoming maroon-mottled, oblong-ellipsoid, moderately laterally compressed, 22–30 × 6–9 mm, glabrous;

stipe 12–16(–19) mm.

17–27.