Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, strigulose-cinereous.

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.

2–7 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–9, blades linear to linear-oblong, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3–)7–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)4–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

divaricate and incurved-ascending, (3–)5–15 cm.

0.6–2 mm.

1–2 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.

6.3–8 mm;

calyx 2.6–3.2 mm, strigose, tube 2.3–2.8 mm, lobes deltate or subulate, 0.3–0.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 6.3–7.4 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.

pendulous, pale green, often faintly purple-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or falcately decurved, narrowly oblong or lanceoloid-oblong, 12–25 × 3–4(–5) mm, papery, strigulose;

stipe 4–8 mm.

(27–)30–36.

(6–)8–14.