Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent to ascending, densely villous-tomentose.

stiffly erect or ascending, or finally straggling and supported on bushes, fistulose, glabrous.

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.

(4.5–)6–17 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–14 mm, herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (17 or)19–35, blades broadly lanceolate to oblong-ovate or oblong-obovate, 6–33 mm, apex retuse or truncate-obtuse, surfaces mostly glabrous, margins and midribs sparsely strigulose.

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

axis (1–)1.5–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(15–)20–60(–75)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (3–)4–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 1.5–6(–7) cm.

0.5–1 mm.

1–3.5 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.

10.5–12.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.5–6 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 3.5–4.6 mm, lobes deltate or subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, rarely tinged purplish, drying brownish;

banner abruptly recurved through 70–90°;

keel 9–10.8 mm, apex sharply triangular.

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.

persistent on receptacle, erect, stramineous, straight, obliquely ovoid-acuminate, greatly inflated, scarcely bladdery, terete or somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 15–25 × (8.5–)10–16 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous or minutely strigulose.

6–8.

44–58.

= 22.