Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent and ascending, woolly-tomentulose.

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.

(2.5–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 2–5.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflet blades oblong-oblanceolate, oblong-obovate, or oblong-ovate, (3–)6–12(–22) mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces white-pannose.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

10–30-flowered;

axis (1–)2–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

ascending, (3–)5–13 cm.

0.6–2 mm.

0.8–3 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.

12.5–16 mm;

calyx 6.6–7.9 mm, white-tomentulose, tube 4.1–4.8 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.3–3.5 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, concolorous, drying yellowish;

keel (9–)9.3–12 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.

pale green or purplish becoming stramineous, 16–26 × (9–)13–23 mm, papery, somewhat translucent, finely tomentulose.

(27–)30–36.