Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

obscured by stipules.

(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.

1.5–7.5 cm;

stipules 3–6.5 mm, membranous, pallid, with green midrib;

leaflets 3 or 5, blades oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 5–17 mm, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces strigose.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

1–3-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis to 0.3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

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

ascending, prostrate in fruit, 0.5–3.5 cm, mostly shorter than leaves.

to 0.8 mm.

1.5–3 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.

24.5–32 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–17 mm, strigulose, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 10.2–13 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple or purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 21.5–24.5 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.

ascending, stramineous, ± straight, obliquely lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 20–35(–40) × 8–12 mm, unilocular, valves much less than 1 mm thick, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose, hairs appressed, 0.5–0.7 mm.

38–54.