Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

diffuse or erect to decumbent-clambering, sparsely strigulose-pilosulous.

2–15 cm;

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

leaflet blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or filiform, 5–30 mm, apex acute, subacute, or, often, mucronate, surfaces silvery-canescent, more densely so adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

2–10 cm;

stipules (1–)2–11 mm, papery-scarious proximally, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets 13–23, blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, 4–18 mm, apex obtuse to retuse or acute, surfaces strigulose.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

5–15-flowered, flowers ascending-erect;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 3–25 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 1.5–15 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

0.5–1.5 mm.

14.5–26 mm;

calyx 7.9–13.7 mm, strigulose, tube 6.5–10 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.5–4.3 mm;

corolla keel 12.8–18.5 mm.

17–24 mm;

calyx cylindric, 7–12.5 mm, villous, tube 5–7.8 mm, lobes linear, 2.5–5.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, sometimes ochroleucous or nearly white;

keel 11.4–14 mm.

firmly attached to receptacle, falling while still attached to pedicel, stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or plumply oblong, 15–31 × 5–12 mm, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous;

septum (0–)1–2.5(–4) mm wide.

erect, green becoming dark, ± straight, oblong-ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, 7–10 × 2.8–4.5 mm, sulcate abaxially, scarcely swollen, thinly papery, densely silky-villous;

stipe 0.3–1 mm.

= 16.