Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

obscured by stipules.

mostly reduced to phyllodia, few with leaflets, 0.8–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing throughout, 2–7 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets 0(or 3–5), blades (phyllodia) oblanceolate to linear, 4–30 mm, apex acute, mucronate, or spinulose, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet often confluent with rachis.

palmately trifoliolate, 0.7–3 cm;

stipules 6–10 mm, hyaline;

leaflet blades spatulate to obovate, 2.5–10 mm, apex subacute to obtuse, surfaces silvery-pilose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

1–3-flowered, subcapitate;

axis obsolete;

bracts sometimes tridentate, 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or ascending, outer ones often prostrate in fruit, 0.4–9 cm.

± obsolete.

0.3–1.7 mm.

± subobsolete.

5.7–9.5 mm;

calyx 2.6–5 mm, strigose, tube 1.9–3.4 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–2.5 mm;

corolla pink purplish to ochroleucous or whitish;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 4–6 mm.

12.5–17.5 mm;

calyx 7.3–10.7 mm, silvery-villous, tube 5.8–7.5 mm, lobes linear to narrowly subulate, 1.5–3.7 mm;

corolla whitish to ochroleucous, petals villous abaxially;

banner differentiated into blade and claw, with shoulderlike projections at middle;

keel 10–13 mm.

erect, pale green tinged purple, with red-mottle, becoming brown or stramineous, straight or slightly curved, lanceoloid to lanceoloid-oblong, 2-sided, laterally compressed, 4–13 × 1.5–3.3 mm, papery, usually strigose, rarely glabrous;

sessile.

straight or slightly decurved, narrowly ellipsoid, 7–10 × 2.5–3.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, densely strigose-hirsutulous.

4–12.

8 or 9.

= 24.