Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

erect or ascending, fistulose, pilose-tomentulose or white-lanate, rarely white-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.

3–13(–15) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 3–12 mm, papery-membranous becoming scarious; mostly sessile;

leaflets (23–)27–41, blades narrowly oblong to oblong, oblong-elliptic, or linear-lanceolate, (2–)5–30 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate and apiculate, surfaces pilose-tomentulose.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

many-flowered, flowers declined and retrorsely imbricate in spikelike heads, 20–70(–90) × 18–23 mm;

axis 2.5–8(–9.5) cm in fruit;

bracts (1.2–)1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 2–10 cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

0.7–1.8 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.

7–10 mm;

calyx ovoid-campanulate, 5.4–7.8 mm, villosulous, tube 3.7–5.2 mm, lobes ± subulate, 1.2–3 mm;

corolla greenish white or cream;

keel 7.1–9.1 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.

deflexed or declined, green becoming stramineous or brownish, ovoid-lenticular, slightly inflated, somewhat compressed laterally, 6–11 × 3.5–6 mm, thin becoming papery, somewhat lustrous, glabrous or sparsely strigulose;

sessile.

11–16.

(2 or)3–12.