Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

prostrate to incurved-ascending, strigulose.

2.5–7 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, herbaceous becoming papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–21, blades oblong-obovate to linear-oblong or -elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to subacute or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose, glabrous, or glabrate adaxially.

1.5–3.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–3 mm;

leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblanceolate, 1.5–7 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely 2–7-flowered, flowers spreading or declined;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.4–1 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.2–1.5 cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

1–2 mm.

6.5–10 mm;

calyx 3.4–4.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.2–2.8 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 0.9–2.2 mm;

corolla yellowish, yellowish white and lightly tinged rose, or greenish ochroleucous, banner violet-veined;

banner recurved through 45–85°;

keel 4.6–6.4 mm.

6–7 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3–4.5 mm, white-strigulose, tube 2–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla blue-violet;

banner recurved through 60–80°;

keel 5–5.5 mm, apex sharply triangular and beaklike.

pendulous, brown or stramineous, lunate, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 12–25 × 2.6–4 mm, papery, strigulose-villosulous;

septum 1.3–2.4 mm wide;

stipe 2.5–5 mm.

deciduous from receptacle, pendulous (sometimes humistrate), green or minutely purple-dotted becoming stramineous, straight, obliquely ovoid, bladdery-inflated, terete or somewhat obcompressed, 7–14 × 4.5–7.5 mm, papery-membranous, somewhat lustrous, minutely strigulose.

11–16.

10–14.