Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or decumbent, sparsely 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.

2.5–8 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–4 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets 13–21, blades narrowly oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 4–13(–18) mm, thin, apex often retuse, sometimes obtuse, surfaces sparsely villosulous abaxially, sparsely villosulous or glabrescent adaxially.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(1 or)2–7-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 0.5–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

incurved-ascending, 2–4.5 cm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

1–2.5 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.

5.2–6 mm;

calyx campanulate or obconic-campanulate, 3.4–4.2 mm, villosulous, tube 1.7–2 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate-subulate, 1.4–2.5 mm;

corolla pale lilac, or whitish and tips lilac;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.6–4.3 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and beaklike.

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

spreading or declined, greenish, sometimes purplish, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 10–22 × 5–14 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, sparsely strigose-villosulous, hairs spreading, incumbent or curly.

18–22.

= 24.