Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

erect or ascending, 2–10 cm underground, 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.

4–9(–11) cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 1–5 mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 11–21, blades linear or linear-elliptic to subfiliform, 8–30 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or truncate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrate adaxially;

terminal leaflet usually continuous with rachis.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

(5–)15–45-flowered, flowers declined and secund;

axis 2–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–2.5 cm.

arcuate-erect, (3.5–)6–12(–15) cm.

1–3.5 mm.

2.3–7 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.

13–17 mm;

calyx purplish or whitish, cylindric, 5.5–7 mm, strigose, tube 5–6.6 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 0.5–1.1 mm;

corolla pale lemon yellow, concolorous;

banner recurved through 35°;

keel (9.5–)10–11.3 mm, apex bluntly or sharply deltate.

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

pendulous, green or reddish becoming stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear-oblong to lanceoloid or narrowly ellipsoid, strongly compressed, flattened laterally, (14–)20–33 × (3.5–)4–6 mm, papery, ± translucent in age, strigulose;

stipe 8–15 mm.

6–10.

11–17.