Flora of North America species comparison

erect-ascending, 1–8 cm underground, strigulose.

reduced to thick crowns.

3.5–6.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–4.5 mm;

leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades linear, 8–28 mm, apex acute, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

1.5–14(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)4–11 mm, submembranous becoming scarious or papery;

leaflets 1–13(or 15), blades obovate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or orbiculate, 3–20 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

5–19-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 3–10.5(–13.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.3–0.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

1.2–12 cm.

0.5–11 cm.

2–2.5 mm.

1.4–5 mm.

4.3–6.1 mm;

calyx campanulate, 1.8–3 mm, strigose, tube 1.2–1.8 mm, slightly expanding in fruit, lobes triangular, 0.6–1 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly suffused with purple, keel maculate.

14–32 mm;

calyx cylindric or campanulate, 7–20 mm, villous, tube 5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 1–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–26 mm.

declined, straight or slightly curved, ellipsoid to oblong, strongly laterally compressed, 9–12 × 2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

stipe 0–0.2 mm.

ascending (humistrate), brown-stramineous, incurved, obliquely ovoid, obcompressed, (13–)18–28(–36) × 7–13(–17) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely hirtellous to densely villous-tomentose, usually concealing surfaces.

4–5.

27–40(–46).