Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect and ascending; densely 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.

distalmost unifoliolate, sometimes also proximalmost, 3–8 cm;

stipules usually distinct throughout, rarely shortly connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 1.5–9.5 mm, firm, early becoming papery;

leaflets (1 or)3–7, blades elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–47 × 2–9(–13) mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

7–30-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 2–11 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 3–25 cm.

erect and incurved-ascending, 2.5–15.5 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

1.2–3 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.

(16–)20–24 mm;

calyx light brown, cylindric-gibbous, (7–)8.2–11(–12) mm, strigose, tube (5.5–)6.5–9.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–2.6(–4) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 13.7–16.6 mm, apex bluntly or sharply 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.

pendulous, brown, straight, ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, sometimes becoming subterete, 25–35 × 4–7.5 mm, papery, strigose;

stipe 8–12 mm.

16–22.