Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, ascending, or trailing, strigulose to 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.

(2.5–)5–16(–20) cm;

stipules usually distinct, rarely connate at proximal nodes, (2–)3–7 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets (15–)21–35(–39), blades ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, oblong-elliptic or -oblanceolate, (2–)5–20(–25) mm, apex emarginate, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (2.5–)4–12 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(10–)15–50-flowered, flowers spreading becoming nodding;

axis (2–)3.5–13(–16) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 1.5–5.5 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)6–26(–30) cm.

0.5–2.3 mm.

1.2–5.2 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.

11.3–19 mm;

calyx pallid, obliquely turbinate, 5–8.7 mm, strigulose or strigulose-villosulous, tube 3.6–5.4 mm, lobes subulate, (0.9–)1.1–3.7 mm;

corolla greenish white or cream, rarely veined pale pink or purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel 8.6–13.3 mm.

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

pendulous, pale green or purplish-tinged becoming stramineous, straight or decurved, linear-ellipsoid, fusiform-ellipsoid, semi-ovoid, semi-ellipsoid, ovoid, or oblanceoloid, ± greatly inflated, often bladdery, laterally compressed when narrow, (13–)15–40(–45) × 4.8–18(–21) mm, thin becoming papery, lustrous, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe filiform, (6–)6.5–17 mm, flexible, strigulose-villosulous.

(10–)12–30.

= 24.