Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

incurved-ascending to decumbent, strigulose to 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.

1.5–4 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, membranous or herbaceous with membranous margins;

leaflets (7 or)9–15(or 17), blades linear-elliptic, 5–12.5 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces pubescent.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely (3 or)4–9-flowered, flowers ascending becoming spreading, ultimately declined;

axis 0.4–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 3–25 cm.

incurved-ascending, (0.6–)1.4–3.5 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

(1.2–)1.6–4.3 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.

6.5–7.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.2–5 mm, gray-strigulose, tube 2.5–3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.4–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 4.7–6.1 mm, apex bluntly 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.

deciduous from receptacle, horizontal or declined, green or minutely purple-dotted, becoming stramineous, straight, obliquely ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, terete or somewhat obcompressed, 13–26 × 8–16 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, somewhat lustrous, strigulose, hairs spreading, incumbent or curly;

gynophore to 0.8 mm.

10–14.