Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, with 3–7 well-developed internodes, strigulose-pilosulous.

prostrate, when developed, 0–2.5 cm, mostly obscured by stipules, strigulose.

7–19 cm;

stipules 3–10 mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (17–)23–35(–39), blades oblong-obovate, elliptic, or nearly oblanceolate, 5–22 mm, apex retuse, obtuse, or subacute, surfaces strigulose-pilosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

1.5–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 2–5 cm, membranous;

leaflets 5–17, blades elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 3–12 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

10–30(–35)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (3–)6–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

4–13-flowered, flowers ascending or spreading;

axis 1.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, (11–)16–30 cm, together with racemes usually longer than stems.

erect, 2–9 cm.

1.3–6 mm.

0.5–2 mm.

15.5–21.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 8.5–12.6 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 5.6–7.5 mm, lobes subulate, 2–5.2(–6) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, or creamy white, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11.5–14.4 mm.

12–16 mm;

calyx cylindric, 6–8.5 mm, strigose, tube 4.5–6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2.5 mm;

corolla purplish;

keel 9.5–12.5 mm.

erect, stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed, grooved dorsally, (15–)17–23 × (4–)4.5–6.3 mm, semibilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, usually strigulose, rarely glabrous;

septum 1–1.6 mm wide;

stipe 0–1.5 mm.

declined to deflexed, green, usually red-mottled or -spotted, becoming stramineous, lunately incurved, obliquely ovoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 10–14 × 3.5–6.5 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, thickly papery, hirsute, hairs lustrous;

sessile, gynophore 0.3–0.8 mm.

(20–)24–31.

20.

= 24.