Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

single or to 3, prostrate to ascending or erect, strigulose.

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.

(1.5–)2–10.5(–12) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–4 mm, thinly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets (3–)7–13, blades linear, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or linear-elliptic, rarely obcordate, 3–18 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 3–25 cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.6–2.5 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

0.6–1.5 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.

5–7.6 mm;

calyx campanulate, (2–)2.7–3.8(–4) mm, strigose, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish, suffused with purple, or pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.8–4.8 mm, apex obtuse, deltate.

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.

spreading to declined, green or suffused purple, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid, bladdery-inflated, 15–24 × 6–12 mm, unilocular or semibilocular, thin becoming papery, strigose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 0.2–1.5 mm wide.

7–18.