Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to weakly ascending;

silvery-strigulose.

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.

2–10(–12.5) cm;

stipules 1.8–3.5 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous;

leaflets (3 or)5–11, blades rhombic-elliptic, obovate-cuneate, or suborbiculate, 3–18 mm, apex obtuse or shallowly retuse, surfaces silvery-strigulose, appearing frosted.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely 3–16-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0.8–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

erect or divaricate and ascending, often humistrate in fruit, 1.5–7(–10) cm.

0.6–2 mm.

0.6–3 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.

7–12.5 mm;

calyx 4–7.2 mm, strigulose, tube 2.5–4.4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–2.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45;

keel 6.8–10.7 mm, apex round.

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.

declined or pendulous, stramineous or brownish, straight or incurved, oblong, or broadly and plumply so to oblong-ellipsoid or clavately oblong, (13–)15–28(–32) × 3.5–8.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, densely strigulose;

gynophore to 0.8 mm.

(27–)30–36.

20–30.