Flora of North America species comparison

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

strigulose-canescent.

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.

1–4(–6) cm;

stipules 1.5–4.5 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–11(–17), blades elliptic to obovate, 1.5–10 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

1–4-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0–8 mm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 0.8–4.5 cm.

0.6–2 mm.

0.7–4 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.

6–8 mm;

calyx 3.7–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 1.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.9–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 80°;

keel 6–7.4 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.

spreading-ascending, purple-mottled becoming stramineous, incurved, obliquely oblong, 3-sided and laterally compressed, 8–10 × 3–4 mm, papery, strigulose, hairs often contorted;

gynophore 0–0.8 mm.

(27–)30–36.

7–10.