Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

ascending to erect, sparsely 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.

(2.5–)4–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2.5–10 mm;

leaflets 3–11, blades linear-oblong or oblanceolate, (6–)15–50 mm, margins flat, elevated, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or strigulose adaxially;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(5–)9–27-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

erect and strict, 3–10 cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

2–7 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.

15–22.5 mm;

calyx 6.5–10.3 mm, strigose, tube 5.2–8 × 2.9–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2.5 mm;

corolla cream;

keel (11.5–)12.7–15.2 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.

erect or ascending, brown or stramineous, ± straight, narrowly oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, terete or somewhat laterally compressed, 9–18 × 2.7–3.5 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, usually glabrous, rarely strigulose;

sessile.

11–16.

(14–)16–21(–23).

= 44.