Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or 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.

5–15(–17) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and bidentate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–6 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades linear- or linear-oblong, 3–35 mm, apex acute or obtuse and mucronate, surfaces glabrous abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

35–60-flowered;

axis 4–8(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 3–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

erect, 9–17(–22) cm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

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.

14–17 mm;

calyx contracted apically, 10–11 mm, hirsute, hairs long, straight, tube to 14 mm, enclosing fruit, lobes subulate, 2–3 mm;

corolla keel 11.2–13 mm.

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

deciduous within accrescent calyx, straight or slightly incurved, 6–7.5 × 3.5–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

gynophore 1 mm.

= 24.

= 24.