Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

decumbent or ascending, villosulous.

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.

5.5–15 cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–8(–12) mm, herbaceous;

leaflets (11–)17–27(or 29), blades oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, or obovate, (4–)7–22(–25) mm, apex acute or truncate and apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so adaxially.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(8–)10–30(–35)-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–15(–20) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 3.5–10(–12) cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

1–6.4 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.

8.3–11.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.5–8.7 mm, densely villosulous, tube 3.6–4.5 mm, lobes lanceolate or subulate, 2.5–4.3 mm;

corolla pale or greenish yellow;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.5–9.1 mm, apex sharply triangular, sometimes obscurely 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.

spreading to declined or ascending, pale green, usually red-cheeked, becoming stramineous, straight, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 20–40 × 14–20 mm, thin becoming papery, sparsely to quite densely villosulous or strigulose-villosulous, hairs 1+ mm.

11–16.

29–52.