Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, diffuse, leafless basally, strigulose.

usually ascending, rarely decumbent, 0–2 cm underground, strigulose to pilose-villosulous.

3.5–5.5 cm;

stipules 1–6 mm, membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous with membranous margins at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–13, blades oblong-elliptic, narrowly oblanceolate, or linear-oblong, 3–12 mm, apex obtuse or obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

2.5–12 cm;

stipules 1.5–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–17, blades lanceolate to oblong, (3–)5–30(–32) mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces usually strigulose, sometimes villous-pilosulous, cinereous, glabrate, or glabrous abaxially, glabrous, glabrescent, or sparsely strigose adaxially.

subcapitate, loosely 2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)5–25(–33)-flowered;

axis 1–18(–20) cm in fruit, elongating little after flowering, arising distal to middle of stem;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles usually 0.

ascending, 1.2–2.5 cm.

incurved-ascending or erect, 3.5–21(–23) cm, usually surpassing subtending leaf, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

0.6–1.5 mm.

0.5–3 mm.

(17–)18.1–19.5(–20) mm;

calyx cylindric, (9.5–10–11.5(–13) mm, strigose, tube 7–8.2 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate-subulate, 2.4–4.5 mm;

corolla white or whitish, keel maculate;

banner incurved through 35°;

keel 13.1–13.6 mm.

(6–)7.2–11.5 mm;

calyx 4–6.8 mm, strigulose, tube 3.2–4.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–2.3 mm;

corolla usually purple, pink-purple, pink, lilac, lavender, or whitish, sometimes whitish with maculate keel;

wing apex obtuse;

keel 5.4–7.9 mm, shorter than wings.

ascending (humistrate), green, incurved through 0.25–0.5+ spiral, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 25–40 × 8.5–10.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming subligneous, prominently cross-reticulate, glabrous.

pendulous, green or purplish, straight or slightly decurved, ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, faces slightly convex, flattened or depressed but not sulcate abaxially, 13–25 × 3.5–5.5 mm, subunilocular or semibilocular, papery-membranous, sparsely strigulose, hairs black or black and white;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 0.2–2 mm wide;

stipe (0.5–)1.5–6.5 mm.

48–51.

6–11.