Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

erect, decumbent, or incurved-ascending, with 2–4 much-elongated internodes, 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.

(3–)5–17 cm;

stipules 4–7 mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (11 or)13–21, blades oblong-obovate, ovate, linear-oblong, or linear-elliptic, 3–17 mm, apex truncate to deeply retuse or obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

7–25(–30)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 1.5–12(–16) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

incurved-ascending, 6–20(–24) cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.7–5 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.

(11.2–)12.5–16.6 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.5–7 mm, strigulose, tube 3.8–5.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–1.2(–1.5) mm;

corolla white, keel tip maculate;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 8.8–10.7 mm.

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

erect, stramineous, ± straight or slightly incurved, narrowly oblong or ovoid-oblong, obcompressed, 12–17 × 3.3–6.3 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.7–1.1 mm wide;

sessile.

6–10.

24–36.