Flora of North America species comparison

erect, strigulose-cinereous.

often erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent, diffuse, or spreading, strigulose or glabrous.

2–7 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–9, blades linear to linear-oblong, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

3–13.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–10(–12) mm, submembranous becoming scarious, pallid;

leaflets (7–)11–35, blades lanceolate-oblong to oblong, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 5–27(–32) mm, apex usually acute or obtuse, rarely emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

(3–)7–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)4–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(15–)25–80-flowered;

axis 3–25 cm in fruit;

bracts (1–)2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

divaricate and incurved-ascending, (3–)5–15 cm.

erect, ascending, or incurved, 2.5–13 cm.

1–2 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

6.3–8 mm;

calyx 2.6–3.2 mm, strigose, tube 2.3–2.8 mm, lobes deltate or subulate, 0.3–0.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 6.3–7.4 mm.

(6.7–)8–17.5 mm;

calyx obliquely campanulate, gibbous-saccate, 3.5–9.6 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 2.8–5.7(–7) mm, lobes subulate, (0.7–)1–4.5(–6) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, whitish, or pink-purple, keel tip often maculate, sometimes purple;

banner recurved through 45° (except 90° in var. nevadensis);

keel 7–13 mm.

pendulous, pale green, often faintly purple-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or falcately decurved, narrowly oblong or lanceoloid-oblong, 12–25 × 3–4(–5) mm, papery, strigulose;

stipe 4–8 mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear, ellipsoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, abaxial face with suture forming prominent ridge flanked by depressed grooves, adaxial face convexly rounded, (5–)6.5–17(–20) × 2–4.5 mm, fleshy becoming thinly leathery or papery, strigulose or glabrous;

stipe 1.4–5.2(–6) mm.

(6–)8–14.

5–15.