Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

incurved-ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

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.

1.5–5 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (5 or)7–11, blades oblong-oblanceolate, obovate-cuneate, or cuneate, 2–8 mm, apex truncate or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or margins sparsely hairy adaxially.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely 2–5(–7)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis (0.4–)0.7–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

erect, 3–25 cm.

ascending or incurved-ascending, 2.5–7 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

0.5–1.5 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.

5.4–10.5 mm;

calyx 2.9–4.3 mm, strigulose, tube 2.2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–1.5 mm;

corolla pink- or violet-purple, wings margined white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 4.3–5.8 mm, apex broadly deltate, sometimes minutely beaklike.

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.

deflexed, declined, or ascending (resupinate), mottled or suffused with purple, incurved, narrowly crescentic, bluntly 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 12–20 × 2.6–3.4 mm, thin becoming papery, base round, strigulose or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle.

8–12.

= 24.