Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to ascending, with 2–5(or 6) developed internodes, 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–)10–21 cm;

stipules 2.5–7 mm, membranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 21–33, blades linear-oblong, linear-oblanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate-oblong, 2–21 mm, apex obtuse or truncate-emarginate to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(8–)12–21-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 4–12(–18) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

erect, 14–30 cm, together with racemes much longer than stems.

0.5–2.3 mm.

0.7–5 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.

11.2–14.1(–17) mm;

calyx short-cylindric, (6.9–)7.6–10.6 mm, strigulose, tube 4.6–5.8 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.9–)2.2–5.2 mm;

corolla greenish white, drying yellowish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°, apex crinkled, 10.5–14 mm;

wings 12.8–17 mm, longer than banner;

keel (9.4–)10.2–12.8 mm.

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

erect, brown or stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 15–25 × (5.5–)6.5–10 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

septum to 0.6 mm wide;

sessile.

23–28.

= 24.

= 24.