Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, with several elongated internodes, strigulose.

(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.

5–10 cm;

stipules 7–11 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous distally;

leaflet blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 18–34 mm, apex rounded to retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(12–)16–30(–35)-flowered;

axis 3–16 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

stiffly erect, (3–)4–18(–20) cm, proximal peduncle and raceme much shorter than stem.

1.5–5 mm.

1–2.4 mm, slightly longer in fruit.

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.

12–15 mm;

calyx 4.3–6.7 mm, black-strigose, tube 3.5–4.5(–4.8) mm, lobes linear-lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm;

keel (7–)7.7–9.1 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.

brownish stramineous, (6–)9–15 × 3.5–6.5 mm, papery-membranous, minutely strigose;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 1.2–2.3 mm;

gynophore 0.4–0.6 mm.

6–10.

= 16.