Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, strigulose.

to 6 cm, internodes ± obscured by stipules, densely villosulous and hirsute.

2.5–11 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, firm at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–17, blades oblong-oblanceolate, linear-oblong, or obovate, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

4–12 cm;

stipules 3.5–7 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 11–17, blades elliptic to obovate, 2–14 mm, apex short-acuminate to acute, surfaces strigulose-villosulous, hairs ascending, dull.

loosely 9–20-flowered;

axis 4.5–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

5–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 2.5–6(–10) cm.

ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

0.8–2 mm.

2–3 mm.

6.9–7.6 mm;

calyx 3.5–4 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 6.8–7.7 mm.

18–22.5 mm;

calyx cylindric, 8.4–12 mm, villous, tube 6.2–7.5 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla whitish suffused with pale purple, keel tip purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–13.3 mm, 4.5–9 mm shorter than banner.

pendulous, mottled (and glaucescent) becoming stramineous and faintly purple-tinged, slightly incurved, oblong-lanceoloid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 18–25 × 3–4.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

septum 2.4–2.7 mm wide;

stipe 3–4 mm.

ascending (not humistrate), sessile or substipitate, incurved, ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 10–20 × 5–10 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, densely hirsute, hairs lustrous, concealing surface, longest 2–2.5 mm.

11–16.

14–16.