Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, ascending, or decumbent, 2–8 cm underground, 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.

1.5–8.5 cm;

stipules 2–5.5 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets 9–23, blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 1–33 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose or glabrous;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

6–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

ascending, 1–6.5 cm.

0.6–2 mm.

1.4–4.3 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.

15–19 mm;

calyx cylindric, 5.5–8.7 mm, strigose, tube 4.7–7 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2.8 mm;

corolla white to yellowish and tinged faintly with pink, sometimes lightly suffused with pink-purple on drying, keel tip faintly to darkly purple;

keel 10.2–13 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, green or purple-mottled becoming stramineous or brownish, strongly incurved or coiled, obliquely oblong, sharply 4-sided compressed, 20–40 × 6–10 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous or strigose.

(27–)30–36.

28–38.