Flora of North America species comparison

angled, sprawling or climbing, sometimes branched at flowering nodes, 2–6 dm.

not winged, erect or sprawling, basally branched 1–several times, 1–8 dm.

5–9 cm;

tendrils usually well developed;

stipules lanceolate to linear, 8–12 × 1–5 mm, much smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 4–8, scattered, blades usually linear, rarely lanceolate, 30–80 × 1–20 mm, surfaces glabrous.

phyllodic;

tendrils absent;

stipules filiform-linear, 1–2 × 1 mm, much smaller than phyllode, base semisaggitate;

leaflets 0;

phyllodes flattened, linear, and grasslike, 80–140 × 4–10 mm, glabrous.

5–8-flowered, 10–18 cm.

1- or 2-flowered, 6–10 cm.

8–15 mm;

calyx lobes subequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube;

corolla white to blue-orchid, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary glabrous.

8–10 mm;

calyx lobes equal, lateral lobes deltate, equal to tube;

corolla crimson, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary glabrous or pubescent.

30–50 × 4–8 mm.

30–60 × 2–4 mm.

= 14.

= 14.