Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

erect to ascending, strigulose.

1–4 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, hyaline, densely pilose abaxially;

leaflets usually 3, rarely 5, blades narrowly to broadly oblanceolate or obovate-cuneate, 3–13 mm, apex subacute, surfaces silvery-pilose.

5–21 cm;

stipules 2.5–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (15–)19–27(or 29), blades oblong, oblong-oblanceolate, or linear-oblong to linear, 5–25 mm, apex truncate to retuse or apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

10–20(–25)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (3–)5–27 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

erect, 8–20(–25) cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.7–4 mm, little, if any, clavate thickening in fruit.

5–6.2(–8) mm;

calyx campanulate, 2.4–4.2 mm, densely pilose, tube 2–3 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 1–1.2 mm;

corolla pink-purple or white, often drying yellowish;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 4–4.5 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

13–15.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5.1–6.6 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 3.8–4.9 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.9 mm;

corolla white or cream, drying ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 10.2–11.8(–12.5) mm.

ascending or recurved, ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 3–4.5 × 2 mm, papery, densely silky-strigose or silky-pilose.

erect, greenish stramineous, straight, linear-oblong or narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, lateral face convex, dorsal face scarcely narrower, grooved or not, 14–24(–28) × 2.7–4.5 mm, ± bilocular, firm and scarcely fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous or strigulose;

septum 0.8–1.7 mm wide;

stipe (2.5–)3–6 mm.

6–10.

20–29.

= 22.