Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

ascending to erect, sparsely strigulose.

(3.5–)5–12 cm;

stipules 0.8–2 mm;

leaflets 9–15, blades obovate, oblong-obovate, or oblong-elliptic, 2.5–7 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous.

(2.5–)4–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2.5–10 mm;

leaflets 3–11, blades linear-oblong or oblanceolate, (6–)15–50 mm, margins flat, elevated, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or strigulose adaxially;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

2–5-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 2–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.1–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5–)9–27-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3.5–)5–11 cm.

erect and strict, 3–10 cm.

2.4–6 mm.

2–7 mm.

12–14 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.3–7.5 mm, strigulose, tube 4–4.5 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla reddish purple, drying bluish;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–14.4 mm, apex sharply deltate.

15–22.5 mm;

calyx 6.5–10.3 mm, strigose, tube 5.2–8 × 2.9–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2.5 mm;

corolla cream;

keel (11.5–)12.7–15.2 mm.

persistent and dehiscent by gaping beak, ascending, green, or suffused or speckled with purple, becoming brownish stramineous, lunate, linear-oblanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, 15–21 × 2.8–3.8 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming thinly or stiffly leathery, sparsely strigulose;

septum 1–1.3 mm wide;

stipe 1–1.5 mm.

erect or ascending, brown or stramineous, ± straight, narrowly oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, terete or somewhat laterally compressed, 9–18 × 2.7–3.5 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, usually glabrous, rarely strigulose;

sessile.

16–19.

(14–)16–21(–23).

= 44.