Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, villous.

single or few, decumbent-ascending, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

(6–)9–17 cm;

stipules reflexed, connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 10–22 mm, foliose becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (7 or)9–15, blades broadly lanceolate- or ovate-oblong or elliptic, 15–60 mm, thin, pinnately veined, apex obtuse, surfaces sparsely villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

4.5–11 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 11–21(or 23), blades obovate-cuneate, ovate, broadly oblong-elliptic, or suborbiculate, 5–20 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate and glaucescent.

10–25(–30)-flowered;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–9 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 2.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, (3.5–)5–14(–19) cm, equaling or shorter than subtending leaf, sometimes exceeding proximal ones, together with racemes usually not longer than distalmost leaves.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

3–9 mm.

0.6–2 mm.

8–13(–14.2) mm;

calyx campanulate, (4.5–)4.9–5.8 mm, glabrous, tube (4.3–)4.9–5.8 mm, lobes deltate (often reduced to shallow crenulations), 0.2–0.7 mm, ciliate;

corolla white or cream, keel 10.3–12.7 mm.

12–15 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 5.9–7.6 mm, strigulose, tube 4.5–5.6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla reddish purple with white or lilac wing tips;

keel 9.5–10.6 mm.

stramineous, straight, obliquely ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–28 × 6.5–9.5 mm, papery, translucent, glabrous;

stipe 4.5–7 mm.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), green suffused or dotted red becoming stramineous, straight to incurved, oblong or broadly oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 15–37 × 8–21 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming papery, stiffly leathery, or subligneous, glabrous;

septum to 3.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–8 mm.

6–9.

(27–)30–36.

= 16.