Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, strigulose.

erect or ascending, softly villous-hirsute or shaggy-villous.

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.

4–13 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing or distinct at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (2–)3–12 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflet blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 4–33 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous-pilose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

loosely 9–20-flowered;

axis 4.5–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

14–30-flowered;

axis 3–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect, 4–12(–15) cm.

0.8–2 mm.

1.5–5 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.

(16–)18–25 mm;

calyx 7–12.5 mm, sparsely villous, tube 4.7–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–4.5 mm;

corolla keel 12–15 mm.

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.

stramineous, 17–32 × 3.5–5.5 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery or leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.6–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–11 mm.

11–16.

= 22.