Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent to ascending, densely villous-tomentose.

erect or ascending, loosely strigulose to villosulous.

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.

3–10(–13) cm;

stipules (1–)2–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades narrowly oblong-oblanceolate to linear-oblong, 5–18(–25) mm, apex retuse, surfaces strigulose to villosulous.

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

axis (1–)1.5–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

12–35(–40)-flowered;

axis 2.5–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

erect, (5–)7–15 cm.

0.5–1 mm.

0.8–2 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.

15–18.6 mm;

calyx gibbous-convex behind pedicel, 8–10.5 mm, villosulous or villous-tomentulose, tube 7.5–9 mm, lobes triangular, 1–2.1 mm;

corolla keel 11.5–14.3 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.

green becoming stramineous, 12–15 × (3–)3.4–4(–5.4) mm, stiffly leathery, glabrous or sparsely pilosulous;

stipe 6–10 mm, pilosulous.

6–8.