Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or weakly ascending, silvery-strigulose.

decumbent to incurved-ascending or erect, densely gray-villous, densely white-tomentose basally.

(2–)3–13(–16) cm;

stipules distinct, (1.5–)2–6.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (9 or)11–21, blades oblong, oblong-ovate or -obovate, or broadly to narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–25 mm, apex usually acute or obtuse and apiculate, rarely retuse-emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, usually densely to sparsely strigulose adaxially, rarely glabrous or glabrescent.

(2–)3–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, (1.5–)2–7 mm, scarious proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets (9–)13–21, blades elliptic-oblanceolate to oval-obovate, 3–10(–14) mm, apex acute to abruptly short-acuminate, apiculate, or obtuse, surfaces villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

(10–)20–40-flowered, flowers widely ascending or spreading;

axis (3.5–)4–21 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

12–20(–26)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 2.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending or incurved, 4–13 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)3–7 cm.

0.5–3(–3.4) mm.

0.6–1.7 mm.

7–10.3 mm;

calyx campanulate or ovoid-campanulate, 3.6–6.6 mm, strigulose, tube (2.2–)2.7–3.8 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, (0.9–)1–2.8 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple, or ochroleucous with purple tips or veins;

banner recurved through 90°, 7–10.3 mm;

keel 6.2–8.8 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and beaklike.

9–14.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.2–8.2 mm, villous, tube 3.5–4.3 mm, lobes subulate or setaceous, 2.4–4.3 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, tinged or veins purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 6.6–9 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

ascending, spreading, or declined, pale green or purple-specked or -suffused becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid or ovoid-acuminate, moderately to strongly bladdery-inflated, ± dorsiventrally or laterally compressed, 9–23 × (4–)5–15(–17) mm, beak prominent, papery, sparsely to densely strigulose.

spreading to declined, stramineous, gently incurved or falcate, obliquely oblong, linear-oblong, or narrowly lanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, (10–)12–18 × 3–4.5 mm, thin becoming papery, villous or villous-villosulous.

(7–)12–31.

(10–)12–16.

= 24.