Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, villosulous.

erect or ascending, densely silky-strigulose.

2–7 cm;

stipules 2–4.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9 or)11–17(or 19), blades obovate-cuneate or oblong-oblanceolate, (4–)6–16 mm, apex truncate-retuse to obtuse, surfaces villosulous.

(5–)7–17(–20) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2–14 mm, scarious;

leaflets (17–)21–35, blades linear, linear-oblong, -elliptic, -lanceolate, or -oblanceolate, (3–)6–26 mm, apex obtuse and apiculate or emarginate, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

8–16-flowered;

axis 1.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles usually 2.

15–45-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (5–)7–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or incurved-ascending, 4.5–12 cm.

erect, 6–24 cm.

1.5–3.5 mm.

1.2–5 mm.

16.6–20 mm;

calyx 9–11.5 mm, densely villosulous, tube 6.9–8.5 mm, not swollen or gibbous proximally, marcescent, lobes triangular, 1.4–3 mm;

corolla whitish, keel tip faintly maculate;

keel 12–13.4 mm.

12.6–17.6 mm;

calyx (6.5–)8–11.4 mm, densely silky-strigulose, hairs white, tube 5–7.2 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.5–)2–4.2 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner gently and slightly recurved;

keel 11.5–14.7 mm.

spreading or pendulous, stramineous, lunate- or hamate-incurved, laterally falcately oblong, laterally compressed, 18–30 × (4–)5–7 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, densely villosulous;

stipe 5–8 mm.

spreading to pendulous, stramineous, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid or semi-ovoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat compressed laterally, (20–)25–43 × 13–18 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

stipe filiform, 14–40 mm, pubescent.

24–30.

(16–)18–30.

= 22.

= 22.