Flora of North America species comparison

clustered, decumbent to ascending or straggling, often conspicuously flexuous, diffuse, strigulose.

erect, strigulose-cinereous.

(3–)5–13 cm;

stipules 1.5–5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–17, blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or narrowly oblong, 3–23 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose or, sometimes, glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

2–7 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–9, blades linear to linear-oblong, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(3–)7–21-flowered;

axis (1–)2.5–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3–)7–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)4–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

4–9.5 cm.

divaricate and incurved-ascending, (3–)5–15 cm.

1–2.5 mm.

1–2 mm.

13–16.3 mm;

calyx 5.9–8 mm, strigulose, hairs white, black, and brown, tube 5.3–7 mm, not swollen or gibbous proximally, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.5–1.3 mm;

corolla whitish, banner and wing tips tinged with lilac, keel maculate;

keel 10–12.1 mm.

6.3–8 mm;

calyx 2.6–3.2 mm, strigose, tube 2.3–2.8 mm, lobes deltate or subulate, 0.3–0.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 6.3–7.4 mm.

pendulous, brown-stramineous, ± straight to sigmoidally incurved through 0.5 spiral, lunately or falcately ellipsoid, subterete becoming laterally compressed, 20–35 × (5.5–)6.5–9 mm, stiffly leathery or subligneous, strigulose;

stipe 12–20 mm, arched downward from calyx, distally sigmoidal-incurved.

pendulous, pale green, often faintly purple-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or falcately decurved, narrowly oblong or lanceoloid-oblong, 12–25 × 3–4(–5) mm, papery, strigulose;

stipe 4–8 mm.

30–36.

(6–)8–14.