Flora of North America species comparison

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

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-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

0.6–2 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.

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.

usually strongly incurved, not or slightly inflated, 15–25 × 8–12 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous;

septum to 1.8 mm wide;

stipe 6–8 mm.

(27–)30–36.