Flora of North America species comparison

strigulose, hairs obscurely malpighian, silvery cinereous, ± straight.

(1.5–)2.5–20 cm.

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

(1.5–2.5–9.5 cm; leaflets 7–13(–17), blades linear to linear-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 2–20 mm, apex attenuate to acute, surfaces pubescent;

terminal leaflet confluent with rachis.

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.

loosely (3–)5–12-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–7.5 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 (2.3–)2.8–3.9 mm, tube (1.7–)2.2–2.9 mm, lobes 0.6–1.4 mm;

corolla whitish, ochroleucous, or stramineous, sometimes brownish-veined, keel apex maculate;

banner 6.6–8.6 mm;

keel 6.2–8.3(–8.8) 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 or linear-oblanceoloid, 11–20 × (2–)2.5–3.4 mm, strigulose.

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.

7–11.

6–19.