Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate, gray-pilosulous.

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.

0.8–2.6 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–2.5 mm;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades folded, obovate-cuneate, 2–6 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces pilosulous.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3 or)4–7(or 8)-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 0.3–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

0.3–0.7 cm, often paired at a node.

0.5–2.3 mm.

0.8–1.8 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.

4.8–5.3 mm;

calyx obconic-campanulate, 3.6–4.2 mm, white-pilosulous, tube 1.3–1.8 mm, lobes slenderly subulate, 1.3–1.8 mm;

corolla whitish, banner tinged or veins faint lilac;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.3–3.6 mm, apex obtuse.

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

spreading-declined, lunately ellipsoid-obovoid, laterally compressed, somewhat depressed but not grooved dorsally, lateral faces with shallow longitudinal groove, 4.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm, unilocular, sparsely pilosulous.

2 or 3.

= 24.