Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect, 0–7 cm underground, glabrous.

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.

crowded, loosely imbricate, 1.5–6.5 cm;

stipules 2–15 mm, membranous;

leaflet blade ovate, orbiculate, or cordate, 15–65 mm, apex obtuse to rounded or retuse, surfaces glabrous.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

2–12-flowered;

axis 0.4–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 3–25 cm.

erect, 0.5–4.5 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

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.

17–27 mm;

calyx 10–17 mm, black-strigose, tube 8.3–13 mm, lobes linear to subulate, 1.5–3.8 mm;

corolla keel 14.2–18.5 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.

pale green and purple-speckled becoming stramineous, straight, 25–35 × 11–16 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe 10–23 mm.

= 24.