Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect, with several elongated internodes, 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.

5–10 cm;

stipules 7–11 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous distally;

leaflet blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 18–34 mm, apex rounded to retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(12–)16–30(–35)-flowered;

axis 3–16 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 3–25 cm.

stiffly erect, (3–)4–18(–20) cm, proximal peduncle and raceme much shorter than stem.

0.7–4 mm.

1–2.4 mm, slightly longer in fruit.

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.

12–15 mm;

calyx 4.3–6.7 mm, black-strigose, tube 3.5–4.5(–4.8) mm, lobes linear-lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm;

keel (7–)7.7–9.1 mm.

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.

brownish stramineous, (6–)9–15 × 3.5–6.5 mm, papery-membranous, minutely strigose;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 1.2–2.3 mm;

gynophore 0.4–0.6 mm.