Flora of North America species comparison

usually erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent, rarely prostrate, usually sparsely strigulose, sometimes pilosulous.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

2–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes, usually black or blackish when dry, 1.5–7 mm;

leaflets 11–21, blades narrowly oblong to elliptic, linear, oblanceolate, or obovate, 3–24 mm, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, or emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

4–15 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 3–8(–12) mm, scarious;

leaflets (9 or)11–31, blades lanceolate-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 3–35 mm, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate, sometimes ciliate.

(1–)3–23-flowered, often paired in leaf axils, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–11 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–2.7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

9–45(–70)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–25) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–7.5(–9) mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

narrowly ascending or incurved, 0.2–4 cm.

erect, 3–13 cm.

0.7–3.2 mm.

2–8 mm.

6–9(–11) mm;

calyx 2.6–5.2 mm, strigose, tube 2–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–2.5 mm;

corolla usually white to ochroleucous, sometimes pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 4.3–5.7(–6.5) mm.

12–19(–21) mm;

calyx pallid or pinkish, short-cylindric, strongly gibbous, (7.3–)8.6–12(–19) mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose, tube (4.7–)5–6(–9) mm, lobes subulate or subulate-setaceous, (1.5–)3.3–6(–10) mm;

corolla usually white or ochroleucous, concolorous, rarely lightly suffused with purple or with purple veins, sometimes keel tip lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 10.8–15.2 mm.

pendulous, green, often brown- or red-mottled, becoming brown or black, straight or curved, ellipsoid to oblong, laterally flattened, 7–16 × 2.5–4.5 mm, papery, usually glabrous, sometimes strigose;

stipe 0.6–6 mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear-oblong, oblong-ellipsoid, or oblong-ovoid, sharply 3-sided compressed, faces of subequal width, nearly flat, 10–30 × 3–8 mm, papery, glabrous or sparsely strigose;

stipe (3.5–)4–6(–7) mm.

3–9.

12–22.

= 16, 24.