Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect or 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.

2–9 cm;

stipules 1.5 mm, membranous;

leaflets 7–17, blades obovate-cuneate, obcordate to lanceolate, narrowly oblong, or linear-elliptic, 3–16 mm, apex retuse, truncate, obtuse, or acute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

2–12-flowered, subcapitate, flowers loosely spreading;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

erect, 3–25 cm.

erect, incurved-ascending, or divaricate, 2.5–7 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

0.5–2.3 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.

5–11.8 mm;

calyx 2.7–5.4 mm, strigulose-villosulous, tube 1.6–3.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 0.9–2.3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, keel maculate;

banner recurved 30–40°;

keel 3.4–6.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes obscurely 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.

ascending, spreading, or declined, stramineous, straight or curved, linear- or narrowly lanceoloid-oblong, obscurely 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, (6–)10–50 × 1.7–3.5 mm, base round, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, strigulose, villosulous, or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle;

stipe 2.7–5 mm.

5–14.