Flora of North America species comparison

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

obsolete (reduced to 1 to several crowns), with persistent thatch of stipules and petioles.

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–)4–10 cm;

stipules 6–10 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, (3–)5–14 mm, thick, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)5–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

ascending, (2–)4–10 cm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

3–5 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.

35–41 mm;

calyx cylindric, 18–24 mm, villous, tube (12–)13.5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 3.5–8 mm;

corolla scarlet or crimson;

banner and keel nearly same length, recurved through 20–30°;

keel 35–40 mm.

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

ascending (humistrate), color concealed by hairs, incurved, obliquely lanceoloid-ovoid or narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 25–40 × 9–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, concealing surface.

34–43.

= 24.