Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, 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.

3–10.5 cm;

stipules 4–9 mm;

leaflets 5–11, blades flat, rhombic-oval to obovate or elliptic, 6–35(–50) mm, apex mucronate, surfaces strigose or glabrous.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

4–10-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

incurved, 3.5–7 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.

23–34 mm;

calyx 12–17.5 mm, strigulose, tube 11–14 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla ochroleucous (fading yellowish), or white (fading off-white);

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 22–23 mm, apex blunt.

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

spreading to declined, pallid-stramineous or brownish, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, inflated, 20–48 × 9–15 mm, moderately fleshy-thickened, becoming stiffly papery to leathery, strigose;

unilocular;

subsessile or substipitate.

55–59.

= 24.