Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent to ascending, densely villous-tomentose.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

5–14 cm;

stipules distinct, 3–6 mm, herbaceous becoming membranous;

leaflets (7–)15–21, blades oval-obovate, 6–17 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose.

5–15(–17) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and bidentate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–6 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades linear- or linear-oblong, 3–35 mm, apex acute or obtuse and mucronate, surfaces glabrous abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(10–)20–40-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis (1–)1.5–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

35–60-flowered;

axis 4–8(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 3–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

erect, 9–17(–22) cm.

0.5–1 mm.

2–5 mm.

9–12 mm;

calyx broadly campanulate, 6.6–7.8 mm, silky-villous, tube 3.9–4.5 × 3.5–4.1 mm, lobes narrowly subulate, 2.7–3.5 mm, somewhat accrescent, covering most or all of mature legume;

corolla pale yellow, drying ochroleucous, pubescent abaxially;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 7.1–8.2 mm, apex obtuse-deltate.

14–17 mm;

calyx contracted apically, 10–11 mm, hirsute, hairs long, straight, tube to 14 mm, enclosing fruit, lobes subulate, 2–3 mm;

corolla keel 11.2–13 mm.

spreading or somewhat declined, straight, obliquely ovoid, obscurely 3-sided compressed, 4.5–6 × 3 mm, stiffly papery, tomentulose, hairs 1+ mm; contracted basally into pseudostipe, 0.4–0.6 mm.

deciduous within accrescent calyx, straight or slightly incurved, 6–7.5 × 3.5–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

gynophore 1 mm.

6–8.

= 24.