Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules.

erect or incurved-ascending, diffuse, glabrous or glabrate.

0.6–2 cm;

stipules 3.5–7 mm, hyaline, glabrate or glabrous abaxially, ciliate;

leaflet blades spatulate to elliptic, 3–7.5 mm, apex acute, surfaces silvery-pilose.

3.5–15 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–25, blades obovate, suborbiculate, obcordate to oblong, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, 6–28 mm, apex retuse-emarginate to rounded, obtuse, acute, or truncate, sometimes apiculate, surfaces glabrous, hairs sometimes on margins or midrib.

2- or 3-flowered;

axis very short;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.7–1.5 cm.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

1–1.5 mm.

1–5.5 mm.

(5.8–)6.6–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–4.2 mm, densely pilose, tube 2.1–2.3 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 90°, obovate-cuneate, (5.8–)6.6–8 mm;

wings (5.7–)6–6.8 mm;

keel 4.1–4.5 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

14–24 mm;

calyx purple, 6.4–12.3 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 5.1–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple, bicolored, or white to pale greenish yellow and, sometimes, modestly suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel (11.1–)11.5–19 mm, apex blunt.

ascending, ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 4–5 × 1.2–2 mm, papery, densely silky-strigose or silky-pilose.

dehiscent on plant, erect to ascending, green or red-dotted becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, ellipsoid, ovoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, inflated, 12–34 × 6–13 mm, unilocular, stiffly papery to leathery, glabrous or puberulent;

stipe 0–7 mm.

6–10.

20–44.