Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

erect-ascending, 1–8 cm underground, 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.

3.5–6.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–4.5 mm;

leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades linear, 8–28 mm, apex acute, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–19-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 3–10.5(–13.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.3–0.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

1.2–12 cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

2–2.5 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.

4.3–6.1 mm;

calyx campanulate, 1.8–3 mm, strigose, tube 1.2–1.8 mm, slightly expanding in fruit, lobes triangular, 0.6–1 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly suffused with purple, keel maculate.

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.

declined, straight or slightly curved, ellipsoid to oblong, strongly laterally compressed, 9–12 × 2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

stipe 0–0.2 mm.

11–16.

4–5.