Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

single or few, usually decumbent to ascending, rarely erect, villous-hirsutulous.

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.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (5–)9–15, blades oblanceolate to oblong or obovate, 2–13 mm, apex retuse to truncate or obtuse, surfaces loosely villous, sometimes glabrate adaxially.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–7-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.3–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.5–4 cm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

0.8–2 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.

5.2–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–6.2 mm, hirsutulous, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely ochroleucous and tinged with purple;

banner recurved 50–70°;

keel (5–)5.4–6.5 mm, apex narrowly triangular, sometimes slightly 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-declined, green or purple-cheeked or -dotted, becoming brownish or stramineous, lunately incurved or hooked, obliquely ovoid, turgid or somewhat inflated, 9–17(–20) × (4–)5–8(–11) mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, white-villous or hirsute, hairs spreading, curved, 0.7–2.2 mm.

11–16.

10–19.

= 24.