Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, villosulous.

slender, decumbent to incurved-ascending, 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.

(2–)2.5–8.5 cm;

stipules: proximals connate-sheathing, bidentate scarious at proximal nodes, distinct or connate at base and subherbaceous at distal nodes, 2–5 mm;

leaflets 9–15, blades elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2–8 mm, apex obtuse or subapiculate, surfaces strigulose.

8–16-flowered;

axis 1.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles usually 2.

5–10(–14)-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or incurved-ascending, 4.5–12 cm.

ascending to declined, 2–5.5 cm.

1.5–3.5 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.

5–6 mm;

calyx 3.3–4 mm, strigose, hairs white or black, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.4 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.

pendulous (or humistrate), red-mottled, narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, 8–14 × 4–6 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, strigulose;

gynophore 0.5–1 mm.

24–30.

12–14(–16).

= 22.