Flora of North America species comparison

strigulose, hairs obscurely malpighian, silvery-silky, ± straight.

1–15(–22) cm.

decumbent to erect, sterile branches forming tuft of sub-basal leaves, strigose, strigulose, or villous.

1.5–9(–12) cm;

leaflets (7 or)9–15(or 17), blades narrowly elliptic to oval-lanceolate, leaflets subtending racemes more broadly elliptic or oblanceolate, (2–)4–16(–20) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces pubescent;

terminal leaflet decurrent or jointed.

1.5–20 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing (bidentate) at proximal nodes, shortly connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–9 mm, papery-membranous throughout or, sometimes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 3–21, blades linear, oblong, elliptic, linear-elliptic, linear-oblanceolate, lanceolate, oblong-elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or, rarely, filiform-subulate (distally), 2–30(–42) × 0.5–7 mm, apex acute, obtuse, acuminate, apiculate, or, rarely, retuse, surfaces strigose, glabrescent, or glabrous abaxially, glabrous, glabrescent, or sparsely hairy adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(4–)7–17-flowered;

axis 1–3(–4) cm in fruit.

3–19(–24)-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 1–14 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–4 mm;

bracteoles usually 0.

usually incurved-ascending, 2–14 cm.

0.8–3 mm.

calyx 2.8–4.3 mm, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes 0.9–1.9 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, purplish, bluish, or dull purple, sometimes pallid or whitish, except maculate keel;

banner 6.9–9.6 mm;

keel 6.2–7.8 mm.

5.3–10.6 mm;

calyx (2.3–)2.4–6 mm, strigose, tube 1.7–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–2.6 mm;

corolla lilac, pink-purple, ochroleucous, or whitish, often suffused, lined, or veined with purple;

banner recurved through 40–90°;

keel 5.9–10.7(–11.4) mm, apex beaklike.

linear-oblong or -oblanceoloid, (12–)14–21 × 2.2–3.3 mm.

declined-pendulous; green, sometimes with purple speckles, becoming brown or stramineous, straight or nearly so, linear, linear-oblong, linear-ellipsoid, or oblanceoloid, laterally compressed, bicarinate by sutures, 11–25 × (1.2–)2–4 mm, papery, usually strigulose, villosulous, or glabrous, rarely with few hairs;

stipe 0–1 mm.

12–18.

6–19.