Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, glabrate, sometimes sparsely strigose distally.

3–22 cm;

stipules usually distinct throughout, rarely connate-sheathing at proximal nodes (var. avonensis), 2–7(–9) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 7–33, blades obovate, elliptic, oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 3–50 mm, apex obtuse or retuse to acute, surfaces sparsely strigose or glabrescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

8–33-flowered, flowers deflexed;

axis 3–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–7 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 4–26 cm.

1–7 mm.

15–24 mm;

calyx lobes deltate to lanceolate-subulate, 0.3–4.7 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, keel often faintly to definitely maculate.

(11–)15–24 mm;

calyx green or yellowish, gibbous, 5.8–14 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose, tube 4.4–7.5 mm, lobes erect-ascending, subulate, deltate, lanceolate-subulate, lanceolate-attenuate, or triangular-subulate, 0.3–6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or pale lemon yellow, keel often faintly to definitely maculate (purplish-tipped) or immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11.5–17 mm, apex bluntly rectangular.

broadly oblong to ellipsoid, 20–38(–42) × (9–)10–15(–25) mm, glabrous or puberulent;

stipe obconic when present, 0–2.5 mm.

firmly attached to receptacle, falling while attached to pedicel, erect to spreading or declined, green or purplish-speckled becoming brown or stramineous, usually straight, ellipsoid, ovoid, cylindroid, obovoid, or subglobose, inflated, 18–42 × 5–25 mm, subunilocular, fleshy becoming leathery-woody, glabrous or puberulent;

septum 0.8–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 0–8 mm.

40–75(–84).

distinct throughout.

= 22, 24.