Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, usually flexuous and abruptly angled distal to each node, hirsute or hirsutulous.

decumbent to ascending, proximal internodes greatly shortened, villosulous.

3–10(–11) cm;

stipules lanceolate-attenuate, (1.5–)2.5–8(–9) mm, herbaceous, sometimes papery at proximal nodes;

leaflet blades obovate to elliptic, (3–)5–19 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces pubescent abaxially, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

(3–)5–12 cm;

stipules obscuring proximal internodes, 3–6 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes;

leaflet blades lanceolate-oblong, oblong, or oblong-elliptic, 6–22 mm, apex emarginate or retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

7–15-flowered;

axis 1.5–7.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.3 mm;

bracteoles (0–)2.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

incurved-ascending, 4.5–15 cm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

ascending, 1.5–3.3 mm.

12–15.3 mm;

calyx 9.5–13 mm, hirsute to hirsutulous, tube 7–8.6 mm, lobes subulate to linear-subulate, 2.5–5.5 mm;

corolla bicolored, keel tip maculate.

13.8–19.3 mm;

calyx 6–9.4 mm, villosulous, tube 4.2–5.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–4 mm;

corolla whitish, drying ochroleucous or yellowish;

keel 9.5–12.3 mm.

stramineous, incurved, (20–)25–40 × (4–)5–7(–8) mm, thin becoming papery, glabrous.

pendulous (humistrate), brownish stramineous, oblong-ovoid or semi-ovoid, 10–25 × (4–)4.5–12 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or woody, glabrous or loosely strigulose;

stipe 5–12 mm.

= 24.