Flora of North America species comparison

42–75 × 25–60 mm;

stipules linear to lanceolate, 4 × 5 mm, margins ± entire, pubescent, with few glandular-punctate trichomes;

pinnae 5–7;

leaflets 8–20 per pinna, blades oblong, 2.5–7 × 1–2.5 mm, apex rounded, surfaces densely strigose or covered with curly trichomes mixed with glandular-punctate trichomes, especially marginally and abaxially, few scattered trichomes to moderately strigose adaxially.

16–26-flowered, axillary and terminal, 12–15 cm.

usually nutant at anthesis, turbinate in outline, 6–10 × 9–10 mm;

abaxial sepal 7–9 × 4 mm;

lateral sepals 6–9 × 9–10 mm;

sepals villous abaxially, or with scattered, short, curled, and glandular-punctate trichomes;

banner bright yellow with red markings, 5–9 × 2–2.5 mm, villous in fold of claw, also with glandular-punctate trichomes abaxially on claw and on basal portion of blade;

lateral petals yellow, sometimes red basally, 6–8 × 3–3.5 mm, sometimes with few glandular-punctate trichomes abaxially at base, slightly villous on inner claw.

decumbent, lunate in outline, 20–25 × 8–10 mm, glabrous or pilose, with scattered glandular-punctate trichomes and scattered multicellular projections to 0.4 mm, each with numerous apical trichomes, appearing stellate, primarily apically and on tip, margins densely covered with complex multicellular projections to 0.4 mm.

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stems yellow, striate, puberulent.