Flora of North America species comparison

usually prostrate or twining, rarely ascending, rarely viscid, glabrous, puberulent, or villosulous, hairs silvery or grayish, spreading or reflexed.

ascending or erect, tomentulose to hirtellous, hairs silvery to tawny.

trifoliolate;

stipules persistent, linear to lanceolate, 1–6 × 1–2 mm, apex acuminate, surfaces puberulent to villosulous;

petiole 4–100 mm, glabrous, tomentulose, or villosulous;

leaflet blades rhombic-orbiculate, rhombic, subrhombic, or ovate, 30–90 × 5–70 mm, membranous or nearly leathery, gland-dotted, base obtuse to rounded, cuneate, or truncate, apex acuminate to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, puberulent, or sparsely to densely villosulous abaxially, glabrous or finely strigose, villosulous, or puberulent adaxially.

usually trifoliolate, proximalmost sometimes unifoliolate;

stipules caducous or persistent, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3–12 × 1.5–3.5 mm, apex acuminate;

petiole 5–35 mm, densely canescent-tomentose abaxially, villous adaxially;

leaflet blades oblong or ovate to rhombic-ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 20–50(–60) × 10–40(–50) mm, leathery, gland-dotted, base obtuse, subcordate, or broadly cuneate, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded, minutely apiculate, surfaces puberulent, strigulose, or villosulous.

racemes, longer than leaves, 2–20 cm.

racemes, shorter than leaves, axillary ones 1.5–4(–5) cm, terminal ones 6.5–23 cm.

1–5 mm.

1–3 mm.

calyx 3–6 mm, puberulent or villosulous, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes lanceolate, laterals 1.5–4 mm, lengths to 2.5 times tube, adaxials 0.5–1 mm;

corolla yellow, veined purple or brown;

banner orbiculate-ovate, 4–6 × 3–5 mm, emarginate, puberulent, gland-dotted;

wings narrowly oblong, 4.5–5 × 1–2 mm, narrowly gland-dotted, puberulent apically;

keel 5–6 × 2–3 mm, glabrous;

stamens 5–7 mm.

calyx 6–9 mm, hirtellous, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate to linear-subulate, laterals 4.5–7.5 mm, lengths 3+ times tube, adaxials 2–2.5 mm;

corolla yellow or bright yellow;

banner orbiculate, 6–9 × 5–7 mm, emarginate, glabrous;

wings oblong, 6–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

keel 5–7.5 × 2–2.5 mm, glabrous;

stamens 5.5–7.5 mm.

falcate to oblong-ovoid, compressed, 9–20 × 3–5 mm, glabrous, puberulent, or villosulous.

ovoid-oblong, compressed, 15–20 × 5–7 mm, hirtellous and puberulent, hairs intermixed.

grayish, brown, black, or mottled, ovoid-reniform, plump, 3–4 × 2–3 mm.

brown, black, or mottled, subglobose, compressed, 3–4 × 3–4 mm.

= 22.

= 22.