Flora of North America species comparison

strigulose, cinereous, greenish cinereous, or canescent;

from subterranean caudex.

single or few to several.

odd-pinnate, (2–)3–9 cm;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades oblong, cuneate-oblong, or ovate, (3–)5–20 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, surfaces brighter green and, usually, less densely pubescent abaxially;

leaflets jointed or joint obscure in distal ones.

odd-pinnate, sessile or subsessile to petiolate;

leaflets (0–)3–21, or lateral leaflets fewer and terminal leaflet continuous with rachis.

(6–)10–30-flowered.

loosely flowered, flowers ascending, spreading, declined, or nodding.

(4–)6.5–21 cm.

whitish, ochroleucous, yellow, or pink-purple to dull lavender or purple, petals often strongly recurved, banner recurved through 30–130°, keel apex obtuse, acute, or triangular, sometimes beaklike.

tubes usually campanulate, rarely cylindric.

19–35 × (3–)3.5–6 mm;

stipe 5–11 mm.

persistent or eventually deciduous, continuous with receptacle, sessile, subsessile, or stipitate, usually declined or pendulous, rarely spreading, ascending, or erect, linear-oblong to linear-oblanceoloid, ellipsoid, ovoid-ellipsoid and bladdery, compressed laterally or dorsiventrally, or 3-sided or 4-sided, usually unilocular, rarely semibilocular.

8–42.

basifixed.

distinct or connate (±) proximally.