Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate to ascending, strigulose.

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.

(1.5–)3–14(–14.5) cm;

stipules distinct, 1–5 mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 7–15, blades oblong-oblanceolate, elliptic, oval-oblong, linear-oblong, linear-elliptic, or linear-setaceous, 1.5–16 mm, apex obtuse, retuse, subacute, or emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose or glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, jointed to or continuous with rachis.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(2–)5–18-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (1.5–)3–17 cm in fruit;

bracts (0.8–)1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles usually 0.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

incurved-ascending, (1.5–)3–16.5 cm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

(1.5–)2–6.5 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.

6.3–13.4 mm;

calyx 3–7.6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.3–5.6 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–2.6 mm;

corolla whitish or dirty white, sometimes veined, tipped, margined, or suffused with purple, or faintly tinged lavender;

keel 6–10 mm.

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

pendulous, green, purplish, or mottled, decurved or straight, linear-oblong, linear-oblanceoloid, or narrowly ellipsoid, compressed, ventral suture convex in profile or at least beak declined from body, 10–22 × 2.3–4.3 mm, unilocular or bilocular, thinly fleshy becoming papery or leathery, strigulose;

septum (0 or)0.6–2.7 mm wide;

stipe 0–2 mm, concealed within calyx when present.

10–29.

= 24.