Flora of North America species comparison

incurved-ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

ascending, decumbent, or sprawling, silky-strigose, villous, or villous-tomentose.

1.5–5 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (5 or)7–11, blades oblong-oblanceolate, obovate-cuneate, or cuneate, 2–8 mm, apex truncate or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or margins sparsely hairy adaxially.

(1–)2–7(–10) cm;

stipules clasping with margins touching but distinct or shortly connate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (1–)2–7(–11) mm, often veined, semileathery;

leaflet blades linear, lanceolate, oblong, elliptic, or elliptic-oblanceolate, 3–33(–35) mm, apex acute, subacute, or obtuse, surfaces glabrous, glabrate, or pubescent.

loosely 2–5(–7)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis (0.4–)0.7–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

densely or loosely 6–40-flowered;

axis 1.5–15 cm in fruit, elongating little after flowering;

bracts 1.2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending or incurved-ascending, 2.5–7 cm.

usually erect, rarely humistrate in fruit, (2–)2.5–15 cm, equal to or longer than subtending leaf, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

0.5–1.5 mm.

0.8–2.2 mm 1.2–3.5 mm in fruit.

5.4–10.5 mm;

calyx 2.9–4.3 mm, strigulose, tube 2.2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–1.5 mm;

corolla pink- or violet-purple, wings margined white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 4.3–5.8 mm, apex broadly deltate, sometimes minutely beaklike.

7–13.8(–14.5) mm;

calyx 3.7–6.4 mm, villous or strigulose, tube 2.4–5 mm, lobes subulate, (1–)1.1–4 mm;

corolla white to purplish or creamy white;

wing apex bidentate;

keel (6.1–)6.7–9.6 mm, shorter than wings.

deflexed, declined, or ascending (resupinate), mottled or suffused with purple, incurved, narrowly crescentic, bluntly 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 12–20 × 2.6–3.4 mm, thin becoming papery, base round, strigulose or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle.

green, often with red or purple, becoming stramineous, ± straight or slightly curved abaxially, convex adaxially, not sulcate, obliquely ellipsoid, semi-ellipsoid, or narrowly oblong, laterally compressed, 10–30 × 3–9(–11) mm, papery, translucent, usually glabrous, sometimes strigose, hyaline septum 0–0.6 mm wide;

stipe 2.5–8[–10] mm.

8–12.

8–16.

= 24.