Flora of North America species comparison

often erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent, diffuse, or spreading, strigulose or glabrous.

ascending to erect, strigulose.

3–13.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–10(–12) mm, submembranous becoming scarious, pallid;

leaflets (7–)11–35, blades lanceolate-oblong to oblong, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 5–27(–32) mm, apex usually acute or obtuse, rarely emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

(2–)3–11 cm;

stipules 3–9 mm, papery proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, 1–22(–30) mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

(15–)25–80-flowered;

axis 3–25 cm in fruit;

bracts (1–)2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5–)7–27-flowered;

axis (1–)3.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(or 1).

erect, ascending, or incurved, 2.5–13 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3.5–)5–18 cm, surpassing subtending leaf.

1–3.5 mm.

0.5–2 mm (0.8–3 mm in fruit).

(6.7–)8–17.5 mm;

calyx obliquely campanulate, gibbous-saccate, 3.5–9.6 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 2.8–5.7(–7) mm, lobes subulate, (0.7–)1–4.5(–6) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, whitish, or pink-purple, keel tip often maculate, sometimes purple;

banner recurved through 45° (except 90° in var. nevadensis);

keel 7–13 mm.

(4.1–)5.5–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.3–5.4 mm, strigulose to pilosulous, tube 2.5–3.5 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 0.9–1.6 mm;

corolla blue-purple, pale pink, or whitish;

keel 4–5.7 mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear, ellipsoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, abaxial face with suture forming prominent ridge flanked by depressed grooves, adaxial face convexly rounded, (5–)6.5–17(–20) × 2–4.5 mm, fleshy becoming thinly leathery or papery, strigulose or glabrous;

stipe 1.4–5.2(–6) mm.

spreading or reflexed, dark when dry, usually somewhat decurved, subsymmetrically or obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, (4–)5–12(–13) × (2.3–)2.5–5.5 mm, sub-bilocular, firmly papery, base cuneate, apex shortly cuspidate, strigose-pilosulous;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum (0.2–)0.4–1.2 mm wide;

sessile or subsessile.

5–15.

4–8.

= 16, 32.