Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent to ascending, densely villous-tomentose.

erect, strigulose-cinereous.

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.

2–7 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–9, blades linear to linear-oblong, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

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

axis (1–)1.5–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(3–)7–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)4–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

divaricate and incurved-ascending, (3–)5–15 cm.

0.5–1 mm.

1–2 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.

6.3–8 mm;

calyx 2.6–3.2 mm, strigose, tube 2.3–2.8 mm, lobes deltate or subulate, 0.3–0.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 6.3–7.4 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.

pendulous, pale green, often faintly purple-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or falcately decurved, narrowly oblong or lanceoloid-oblong, 12–25 × 3–4(–5) mm, papery, strigulose;

stipe 4–8 mm.

6–8.

(6–)8–14.