Campestris:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.   plants acaulescent; stems NOT with one or more evident nodes stipules adnate to the petioles for half their length; NOT adnate to the base of the petiole only leaves with 17-33 leaflets; NOT 11-19 leaflets leaflets all paired or scattered on the rachis; NOT [leaflets whorled on the rachis or appearing so; few leaflets in pairs] leaflets not fascicled, opposite or subopposite; NOT [mostly fascicled, appearing whorled] flowers yellowish, ochroleucous, or whitish; NOT purplish, NOT blue keel of the corolla 11-14.5 mm long; NOT 15-20 mm long pods erect or spreading; NOT pendulous pods NOT rigid at maturity pods chartaceous; NOT coriaceous

 

Oxytropis: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus.  herbs; NOT shrubs plants NOT climbing leafy stems usually absent leaves pinnately divided; NOT palmately divided leaflets more than 3 terminal leaflet normal; NOT replaced by a tendril leaflets NOT [5, pinnately arranged (the lower pair basal and resembling stipules)] leaves NOT glandular-dotted inflorescence NOT umbel-like calyx-lobes NOT [subulate, much longer than the tube] flowers NOT [pinkish to red or purple] flowers NOT yellow (FOA, see note above) keel with a sharp point at the tip; NOT rounded at tip, NOT obtuse at the tip keel NOT truncate fruit a legume; NOT a loment pod NOT segmented, NOT jointed fruit NOT [only slightly longer than wide, with short stout spines, 1-seeded]

Leguminosae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family.  herbs; NOT shrubs, NOT trees plants terrestrial or semiaquatic; NOT aquatic plants NOT with colored milky juice plants with more than one normal leaf some or all leaves alternate; NOT [opposite, whorled, or basal] leaves with stipules flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others calyx regular flowers irregular in shape corolla pea-like; NOT [with one petal spurred or sac-like] stamens usually separate or partly so; NOT in a column fruit a legume; NOT a 3-valved capsule