Flora of North America species comparison

strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed.

1–15 cm.

few or several to many.

(3–)4.5–19 cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–21, blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, lanceolate, or lanceolate-oblong, (3–)5–26 mm, apex acute, obtuse, obtuse and apiculate, or, rarely, retuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

odd-pinnate, petiolate to short-petiolate;

leaflets (1 or)3–21, or reduced to phyllodium, sometimes terminal leaflet decurrent and not jointed to rachis.

(3–)6–16-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–7(–7.5) cm in fruit.

loosely flowered, flowers often ascending then declined.

calyx (3.8–)4–5.6 mm, tube 2.6–3.5 mm, lobes (0.9–)1–2.3 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes purple-veined;

banner (5.2–)6.5–13 mm;

keel (7.1–)8–10(–11.4) mm.

whitish, ochroleucous, lilac, or purple to pink-purple, banner recurved through 40–90°, keel apex obtuse, broadly triangular, or acute-triangular and beaklike.

tubes campanulate.

linear, linear-ellipsoid, or -oblanceoloid, (15–)18–25 × 2.5–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with few, scattered hairs.

persistent, sessile or substipitate, declined-pendulous, spreading, or ascending, linear to linear-ellipsoid, oblanceoloid, or narrowly oblong, laterally compressed and 2-sided, unilocular.

(6 or)7–11.

6–26.

basifixed or malpighian.

connate or distinct at distal nodes.