Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

erect and incurved-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.

(2.5–)3–8 cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–5.5 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets (11–)17–25, blades oval-oblong, oblanceolate, narrowly obovate, ovate, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, (3–)4–11 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

(10–)15–25(–30)-flowered;

axis (2.5–)6–18(–22) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–2.5 cm.

erect or incurved, (2–)4–11 cm, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

1–3.5 mm.

0.8–1.8 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.

6.3–7.2 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.2–4.1 mm, strigulose, hairs white, black, or fuscous, tube 2.1–2.6 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes tinged with lavender;

banner abruptly incurved through 100°;

keel 4.6–5.5 mm.

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

stramineous, straight or nearly so, linear-oblong or ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided compressed, 13–22 × 3.2–4.1 mm, incompletely bilocular, papery, black-strigulose;

valves inflexed as nearly complete septum 0.8–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 2.2–5 mm.

6–10.

7–13.

= 22.