Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, strigulose.

decumbent to ascending or erect, glabrous or strigose.

(2.5–)4–10 cm;

stipules 1.5–2.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or with herbaceous tips at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades broadly oblong-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong or linear-elliptic, 2–10(–15) mm, apex obtuse to truncate, shallowly retuse, or subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, sparsely strigulose or glabrous adaxially.

2–15 cm;

stipules 2–10 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7–)11–27, blades orbiculate, suborbiculate, elliptic, rhombic-elliptic, rhombic-ovate, oblong-ovate, ovate, or obovate, 3–25 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, retuse, or apiculate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate.

(3–)6–14-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

7–16-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–7 mm;

bracteoles 2.

straight, sometimes incurved-ascending, 3–15 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 3–15 cm.

0.5–2.2 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

7–10.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, (3.1–)3.6–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube (2.3–)2.8–4 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.4–1.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or whitish suffused with lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (6.3–)7–10 mm, apex triangular and beaklike.

(16–)16.5–21 mm;

calyx short-cylindric to deeply campanulate, 7–13.5 mm, sparsely strigulose or glabrous, tube 3.5–6.8 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 2–7.1 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, yellowish, whitish, cream, or purple (wing tips sometimes pale or white);

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 11.5–15.5 mm.

persistent on receptacle until well after maturity, falling while still attached to pedicel, erect, stramineous, straight, linear-oblong, obtusely 3-sided compressed, 10–25 × 2.4–3.3 mm, ± bilocular, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose;

septum 1–1.4 mm wide;

sessile or subsessile.

ascending to declined, pale green, often purple-mottled, becoming brownish or stramineous, sharply incurved, obliquely ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, (15–)20–30 × 6–12 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

septum narrow, subobsolete, to 1.5 mm wide;

gynophore 1.5–5 mm.

14–23.

18–41.