Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

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.

2–9 cm;

stipules 1.5 mm, membranous;

leaflets 7–17, blades obovate-cuneate, obcordate to lanceolate, narrowly oblong, or linear-elliptic, 3–16 mm, apex retuse, truncate, obtuse, or acute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(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.

2–12-flowered, subcapitate, flowers loosely spreading;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

narrowly ascending or incurved, 0.2–4 cm.

erect, incurved-ascending, or divaricate, 2.5–7 cm.

0.7–3.2 mm.

0.5–2.3 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.

5–11.8 mm;

calyx 2.7–5.4 mm, strigulose-villosulous, tube 1.6–3.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 0.9–2.3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, keel maculate;

banner recurved 30–40°;

keel 3.4–6.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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, spreading, or declined, stramineous, straight or curved, linear- or narrowly lanceoloid-oblong, obscurely 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, (6–)10–50 × 1.7–3.5 mm, base round, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, strigulose, villosulous, or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle;

stipe 2.7–5 mm.

3–9.

5–14.

= 16, 24.