Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, strigulose.

decumbent to ascending, strigulose, villosulous, glabrous, or with few scattered hairs.

(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.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules distinct, (1–)1.5–5 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(–25), blades obovate-cuneate, oblong-obovate, or elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, (7–)9–19(–21) mm, apex retuse or truncate to obtuse, surfaces strigulose or villosulous abaxially, strigose to glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

(3–)6–14-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5–)10–25(–35)-flowered, flowers retrorsely imbricate, ascending then nodding;

axis 2–10(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or arcuate-erect, 4–15 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.

13.5–21 mm;

calyx broadly campanulate to broadly cylindric (gibbous-saccate or gibbous-truncate), 6.1–13.6 mm, strigulose or villosulous, marcescent, tube 5.4–11.9 mm, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.4–2.3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, or lemon yellow;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–15.2 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.

pendulous, green or purple-spotted becoming brown-stramineous, hamately or lunately incurved or, rarely, coiled through 1.5 spirals, narrowly oblong, laterally compressed, 14–35 × (2.7)3–4.5(–5.5) mm, stiffly papery or thinly leathery, usually glabrous, villosulous, or strigulose, rarely glabrate;

stipe 6–20 mm.

14–23.

14–25(–28).