Flora of North America species comparison

6–18 cm;

stipules densely pilose to villous, or glabrate abaxially;

leaflets 7–17(–21).

6–28 cm;

stipules membranous, light tan or grayish, 8–22 mm, free ends acuminate, pilose, villous, glabrate, or glabrous abaxially, margins ciliate or eciliate;

leaflets 7–19(or 21), opposite, subopposite, or scattered, blades ovate to elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, (4–)7–32(–40) × (1.5–)4–9(–10) mm, apex acute, surfaces sericeous, often densely so.

5–17-flowered.

5–20+-flowered, subcapitate to elongate.

8–29 cm, axis often compact, 3–12 cm in fruit.

erect, 7–30 cm, sericeous;

bract lanceolate, shorter than flowers, pilose.

whitish or yellowish, fading yellowish, 17–22 mm, keel tip not maculate.

white to yellowish, keel tip maculate or not, 17–27(–28) mm.

7–10.5 mm, tube 6.5–7.5 mm, lobes 2–3 mm.

cylindric, 7–12 mm, pilose, hairs black and white, lobes dark hairy;

tube 6.5–9 mm, lobes 2–4 mm.

16–24 × 4.5–6 mm.

erect, sessile, subcylindric to ovoid-oblong, 15–24 × 4.5–7 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy when fresh, becoming leathery or almost woody and rigid, strigose or pilosulous.

= 48.