Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

diffuse, prostrate, ascending, or erect, sparsely villosulous.

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.

(2.5–)4–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 3–14 mm, membranous; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (21 or)23–43, blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, oblong-obovate, narrowly to broadly oblong, or oblanceolate, (2–)3.5–25(–28) mm, apex retuse, emarginate, obtuse, or obtuse and apiculate, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so or glabrous adaxially, rarely puberulent.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

(15–)20–90(–125)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4(–5) mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)6–15(–18) cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.8–5.5(–7) mm.

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.

(10–)11–15 mm;

calyx campanulate or ovoid-campanulate, gibbous abaxially, (5.5–)5.8–8.2(–9) mm, sparsely to densely villosulous or loosely strigulose, tube (4–)4.3–5.7(–5.9) mm, lobes broadly subulate or triangular, (1.1–)1.3–3(–3.1) mm;

corolla greenish white or cream;

keel (9.7–)10.5–14 mm.

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

loosely spreading, ascending, or declined, pale green or minutely purple-dotted, becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, or semi-ovoid, semi-obovoid, or semi ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, (20–)25–55(–60) × 15–27 mm, thin becoming papery, lustrous, glabrous or villosulous;

sessile.

6–10.

(14–)16–38.

= 22.