Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

often erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent, diffuse, or spreading, strigulose or glabrous.

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.

3–13.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–10(–12) mm, submembranous becoming scarious, pallid;

leaflets (7–)11–35, blades lanceolate-oblong to oblong, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 5–27(–32) mm, apex usually acute or obtuse, rarely emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(15–)25–80-flowered;

axis 3–25 cm in fruit;

bracts (1–)2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

erect, ascending, or incurved, 2.5–13 cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

1–3.5 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–)8–17.5 mm;

calyx obliquely campanulate, gibbous-saccate, 3.5–9.6 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 2.8–5.7(–7) mm, lobes subulate, (0.7–)1–4.5(–6) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, whitish, or pink-purple, keel tip often maculate, sometimes purple;

banner recurved through 45° (except 90° in var. nevadensis);

keel 7–13 mm.

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.

stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear, ellipsoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, abaxial face with suture forming prominent ridge flanked by depressed grooves, adaxial face convexly rounded, (5–)6.5–17(–20) × 2–4.5 mm, fleshy becoming thinly leathery or papery, strigulose or glabrous;

stipe 1.4–5.2(–6) mm.

11–16.

5–15.