Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

prostrate or decumbent to ascending, villous.

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.

2.5–13 cm;

stipules distinct, 2.5–7 mm, herbaceous becoming membranous;

leaflets (9–)15–25(–29), blades narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–16 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces villous or villous-pilose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(6–)12–30-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis (1–)1.5–5(–7) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, 3–10 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.2–0.8 mm.

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.

7–11(–11.7) mm;

calyx campanulate, (5–)5.6–8.3 mm, villous or villous-tomentose, tube (2.5–)3.1–4.5 × (2.4–)2.6–3.6 mm, lobes narrowly subulate, (2.4–)2.6–3.6 mm, somewhat accrescent, covering most or all of mature legume;

corolla whitish, often tinged lavender, immaculate or keel tip maculate, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 5.2–7.4 mm, apex obtuse, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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.

spreading to ascending, straight, obliquely ovoid, somewhat laterally compressed, (3.5–)4–6 × 2.5–3.5 mm, stiffly papery, densely villous-tomentulose, hairs 1+ mm.

4–12.

4–10.

= 24.

= 24.