Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, (0–)1–12+ cm underground, villous.

decumbent or prostrate, strigulose to villosulous.

(2–)3–12 cm;

stipules distinct, subterranean ones often fully amplexicaul but distinct, 7–15 mm, foliose at distal nodes;

leaflets (5–)7–13(–15), blades elliptic, oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, 10–30(–35) mm, pinnately veined, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2.5–7.5(–9) cm;

stipules 1.5–4 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets (13–)17–25(or 27), blades broadly elliptic, oval, or oblong, 1–6.5 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose to villosulous, sometimes glabrous or glabrescent adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely (4–)6–12-flowered;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 3–9.8 cm, usually longer than subtending leaf.

0.5–5.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1–1.6 mm.

13–19 mm;

calyx campanulate to subcylindric, 7.5–8.8 mm, villosulous, tube 6.3–8 mm, lobes broadly triangular, 0.6–0.8 mm;

corolla yellowish with whitish margins, banner sometimes purple bordered white, keel 13.2–16 mm.

5.3–6.8 mm;

calyx 2.9–3.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.1–2.3 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, banner veined purplish;

banner recurved through 45–85°;

keel 4–5 mm.

green becoming brown, ± straight, ovoid, inflated, 15–21 × 5.5–8 mm, papery-membranous, black-pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm;

stipe 5–7 mm, pubescent.

pendulous, stramineous, slightly incurved, nearly lanceoloid-ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 7–12 × 2–3.8 mm, papery, strigulose;

septum 0.7–1.2 mm wide;

stipe 1.5–4 mm.

6–10.

6–12.

with racemes shorter than leaves.

= 16.