Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

erect or ascending, fistulose, white and villous-tomentulose.

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–)4–16 cm;

stipules 3–10 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflet blades oblong-ovate or -obovate to lanceolate-elliptic, 3–20 mm, apex acute, obtuse and apiculate, or apiculate, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

35–60-flowered;

axis 3.5–10(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

spreading or incurved-ascending, 2.5–9 cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

0.5–1.5 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.

9.1–11.7 mm;

calyx 6.2–8.1 mm, villous-villosulous, tube 3.3–4.1 mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate to caudate, 2.5–5(–6) mm;

corolla keel 6.4–8.5 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, 6.5–9 × (2.5–)3–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, villous or villous-tomentulose;

gynophore 0.5–0.7 mm.

11–16.