Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent, 0–7 cm underground, hirsute.

erect, ascending, or trailing, strigulose to villosulous.

(1.5–)3–10(–12) cm;

stipules rarely connate at proximal nodes, 2–8.5 mm, mostly thinly herbaceous, sometimes papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets (3–)7–15, blades thin, obovate, broadly oblanceolate, or suborbiculate, (2–)5–22 mm, larger ones pinnately veined, apex cuneate to emarginate, surfaces villous-pilose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(2.5–)5–16(–20) cm;

stipules usually distinct, rarely connate at proximal nodes, (2–)3–7 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets (15–)21–35(–39), blades ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, oblong-elliptic or -oblanceolate, (2–)5–20(–25) mm, apex emarginate, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

densely (5–)8–24-flowered;

axis 1–3(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts (2–)2.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)15–50-flowered, flowers spreading becoming nodding;

axis (2–)3.5–13(–16) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

incurved-ascending, (2–)3–11 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)6–26(–30) cm.

0.7–2.5 mm.

1.2–5.2 mm.

8.8–11.2 mm;

calyx 5.5–7.8(–8.2) mm, pilose, tube 2.7–3.7 mm, lobes lanceolate to lanceolate-attenuate, (2.7–)3–4.5(–5) mm;

corolla pale yellow to greenish ochroleucous, fading yellowish, keel immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–80°;

keel 7.2–9.7 mm, apex narrowly deltate, acute or subacute, often beaklike.

11.3–19 mm;

calyx pallid, obliquely turbinate, 5–8.7 mm, strigulose or strigulose-villosulous, tube 3.6–5.4 mm, lobes subulate, (0.9–)1.1–3.7 mm;

corolla greenish white or cream, rarely veined pale pink or purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel 8.6–13.3 mm.

ascending or spreading (humistrate), pale yellow green becoming stramineous then brownish, incurved or ± straight, slenderly lunate-ellipsoid or semi-ellipsoid, bluntly 3-sided compressed, (15–)17–25 × (2.8–)3.2–5.2 mm, subunilocular, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, densely hirsute, hairs spreading-ascending, to 1.2–1.8 mm, lustrous white;

gynophore to 0.8 mm.

pendulous, pale green or purplish-tinged becoming stramineous, straight or decurved, linear-ellipsoid, fusiform-ellipsoid, semi-ovoid, semi-ellipsoid, ovoid, or oblanceoloid, ± greatly inflated, often bladdery, laterally compressed when narrow, (13–)15–40(–45) × 4.8–18(–21) mm, thin becoming papery, lustrous, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe filiform, (6–)6.5–17 mm, flexible, strigulose-villosulous.

12–18.

(10–)12–30.