Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect or ascending, current season stems 3–10 cm underground, strigulose or villosulous.

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.

3–8 cm;

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

leaflet blades obovate-cuneate, 4–12 mm, apex obtuse, retuse, or obcordate, surfaces strigulose or villosulous abaxially, strigose to glabrescent adaxially.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

9–15-flowered;

axis 3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 3–25 cm.

erect or divaricate-ascending, 1–6.5 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

1–1.5 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.

14–17 mm;

calyx 5–6.5 mm, strigose, tube 5–6 mm, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.5–0.9 mm;

corolla keel 12–13 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 sometimes mottled becoming stramineous, coiled through 1.5–2 spirals into a closed ring, 3.5–4 mm wide, scarcely fleshy becoming stiffly papery, sparsely villous;

stipe 10–15 mm.