Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, strigulose.

erect, strigulose or glabrous, or glabrate proximally.

(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.

3.5–11 cm;

stipules 2–9 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades broadly obovate-cuneate or obovate-flabellate, 7–15(–18) mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces glabrous.

(3–)6–14-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(7–)12–33-flowered;

axis 4–20(–28) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect, 3.5–15 cm.

0.5–2.2 mm.

0.5–2 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.

8–11 mm;

calyx 4.7–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 3–3.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–2 mm;

corolla white, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 60–80°;

keel 6.8–7.7 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.

incurved-ascending, green, sometimes purple-tinged or -mottled, becoming stramineous, sometimes suffused with purplish brown, incurved through 0.25 spiral, 8–15 × 3–5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

stipe (2.5–)3–5 mm.

14–23.