Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or incurved-ascending, diffuse, glabrous or glabrate.

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.

3.5–15 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–25, blades obovate, suborbiculate, obcordate to oblong, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, 6–28 mm, apex retuse-emarginate to rounded, obtuse, acute, or truncate, sometimes apiculate, surfaces glabrous, hairs sometimes on margins or midrib.

10–30(–35)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (3–)6–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

1.3–6 mm.

1–5.5 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.

14–24 mm;

calyx purple, 6.4–12.3 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 5.1–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple, bicolored, or white to pale greenish yellow and, sometimes, modestly suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel (11.1–)11.5–19 mm, apex blunt.

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.

dehiscent on plant, erect to ascending, green or red-dotted becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, ellipsoid, ovoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, inflated, 12–34 × 6–13 mm, unilocular, stiffly papery to leathery, glabrous or puberulent;

stipe 0–7 mm.

(20–)24–31.

20–44.

= 24.