Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, strigulose.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

(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.

5–15(–17) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and bidentate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–6 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades linear- or linear-oblong, 3–35 mm, apex acute or obtuse and mucronate, surfaces glabrous abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(3–)6–14-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

35–60-flowered;

axis 4–8(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 3–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect, 9–17(–22) cm.

0.5–2.2 mm.

2–5 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.

14–17 mm;

calyx contracted apically, 10–11 mm, hirsute, hairs long, straight, tube to 14 mm, enclosing fruit, lobes subulate, 2–3 mm;

corolla keel 11.2–13 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.

deciduous within accrescent calyx, straight or slightly incurved, 6–7.5 × 3.5–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

gynophore 1 mm.

14–23.

= 24.