Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

incurved-ascending, diffuse, 1–12 cm underground, strigulose.

(4–)5–14 cm;

stipules 2–6(–7) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (15–)19–25(or 27), blades elliptic, linear-elliptic, or oblanceolate, 2–14 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, truncate-apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(3.5–)5–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct or shortly or obscurely connate distally, 2–7 mm, papery proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets 11–25, blades oblong-elliptic or obovate, (2.5-)5–14 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, sparsely hairy or glabrous adaxially.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2.5–)5–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

8–20-flowered, flowers spreading, later declined;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, often incurved, (7–)10–18(–20) cm.

4.5–8 cm.

1–4 mm.

0.8–3.5 mm.

11.7–15.2 mm;

calyx 6.6–8.8 mm, strigose, tube 4.5–6 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel (9.5–)10–11.7 mm.

14–18.7 mm;

calyx subcylindric, 7.9–10 mm, strigulose or villosulous, tube 5.8–7.2 mm, lobes subulate, 2–3.5 mm;

corolla pale purple (drying dull lavender);

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11–14.4 mm.

pendulous, stramineous, straight or gently incurved, linear-ellipsoid, 3-sided and laterally compressed, lateral face flat, dorsal face grooved, (25–)30–45 × 2.5–3.3 mm, length mostly 10 times width, papery, finely strigulose;

septum 1.6–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 6–15 mm.

humistrate, spreading, or declined, often red-mottled, subsymmetric, ovoid-acuminate or ovoid-ellipsoid, subterete, bladdery-inflated, 22–28 × 11–16 mm, papery-membranous, translucent, loosely strigulose to villosulous;

stipe 1.5–3 mm.

(16–)18–30.

22–26.

= 24.

= 22.