Flora of North America species comparison

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

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

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.

0.5–3 cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–3 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 1.5–5 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces ashen-strigulose.

(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.

(1 or)2(or 3)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.1–0.3(–0.4) cm in fruit, slightly elongating;

bracts 0.7–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

narrowly ascending or incurved, 0.2–4 cm.

axillary, ascending, 0.2–0.6 cm.

0.7–3.2 mm.

2.2–3.5 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.

9–11.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4–5.9 mm, silky-strigulose, tube 3.2–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing tips whitish, keel maculate, or near-white;

keel 7.5–8.7 mm, apex blunt.

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.

ascending or spreading, green, slightly incurved, obliquely-ovoid, laterally compressed, 5–7.5 × 2.8–3.8 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, densely strigulose.

3–9.

8–10.

= 16, 24.

= 22.