Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent or ascending, 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.

5.5–15 cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–8(–12) mm, herbaceous;

leaflets (11–)17–27(or 29), blades oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, or obovate, (4–)7–22(–25) mm, apex acute or truncate and apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so adaxially.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(8–)10–30(–35)-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–15(–20) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 3.5–10(–12) cm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

1–6.4 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.

8.3–11.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.5–8.7 mm, densely villosulous, tube 3.6–4.5 mm, lobes lanceolate or subulate, 2.5–4.3 mm;

corolla pale or greenish yellow;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.5–9.1 mm, apex sharply triangular, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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

spreading to declined or ascending, pale green, usually red-cheeked, becoming stramineous, straight, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 20–40 × 14–20 mm, thin becoming papery, sparsely to quite densely villosulous or strigulose-villosulous, hairs 1+ mm.

29–52.

= 24.