Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate or decumbent to ascending, villous.

(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.

2.5–13 cm;

stipules distinct, 2.5–7 mm, herbaceous becoming membranous;

leaflets (9–)15–25(–29), blades narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–16 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces villous or villous-pilose.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(6–)12–30-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis (1–)1.5–5(–7) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, 3–10 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.2–0.8 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.

7–11(–11.7) mm;

calyx campanulate, (5–)5.6–8.3 mm, villous or villous-tomentose, tube (2.5–)3.1–4.5 × (2.4–)2.6–3.6 mm, lobes narrowly subulate, (2.4–)2.6–3.6 mm, somewhat accrescent, covering most or all of mature legume;

corolla whitish, often tinged lavender, immaculate or keel tip maculate, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 5.2–7.4 mm, apex obtuse, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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.

spreading to ascending, straight, obliquely ovoid, somewhat laterally compressed, (3.5–)4–6 × 2.5–3.5 mm, stiffly papery, densely villous-tomentulose, hairs 1+ mm.

6–10.

4–10.

= 16.

= 24.