Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, 0.5–2.2 cm underground, 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.

(6–)8–14(–18) cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 3–12 mm, white-papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 7–15, blades linear, 10–43 mm, apex acute, surfaces strigulose;

terminal leaflet jointed to rachis.

(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.

10–25(–30)-flowered, flowers becoming twisted through 180°;

axis 7–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

narrowly ascending or incurved, 0.2–4 cm.

8–15 cm.

0.7–3.2 mm.

1–5 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.

(12–)14–18 mm;

calyx campanulate, (4–)7–9 mm, strigose, tube 3.5–7 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (0.5–)1.2–2.5 mm;

corolla lemon yellow, concolorous;

banner recurved through 80–110°;

keel apex bluntly or sharply deltate.

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.

inverted from flexion of pedicels, ascending to erect, green becoming maroon-mottled, oblong-ellipsoid, moderately laterally compressed, 22–30 × 6–9 mm, glabrous;

stipe 12–16(–19) mm.

3–9.

17–27.

= 16, 24.