Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, villosulous.

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

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.

(1.5–)2.5–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 4–9 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (7–)11–21(–25), blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblanceolate, (2–)3–12 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or emarginate, surfaces ashen-strigulose.

8–16-flowered;

axis 1.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles usually 2.

densely 7–26-flowered, flowers in subcapitate cluster, ascending to spreading becoming declined proximally;

axis slightly elongating to 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or incurved-ascending, 4.5–12 cm.

 ±scapelike, incurved-ascending, (2.5–)3.5–15(–22) cm.

1.5–3.5 mm.

0.6–1.6 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.

6.2–10.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.7–6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.3–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.7 mm;

corolla pink to pink-purple, wing tips white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 45–50°;

keel 4.3–6.8 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes beaklike.

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.

in oblong or globose, headlike clusters, spreading and ascending, reddish-tinged becoming brownish, slightly incurved, obliquely-ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided and somewhat laterally compressed, 4.5–7.5 × 2–4.2 mm, fleshy and firm becoming stiffly papery or somewhat leathery, strigulose.

24–30.

7–11.

= 22.

= 22.