Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

incurved-ascending, diffuse, 1–12 cm underground, strigulose.

mostly in sub-basal cluster, (6–)10–30 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 3–10(–11) mm, scarious throughout;

leaflets (9–)13–25(–31), blades linear-oblong, linear-elliptic, lanceolate, or subfiliform, 3–23 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes continuous with rachis.

(3.5–)5–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct or shortly or obscurely connate distally, 2–7 mm, papery proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets 11–25, blades oblong-elliptic or obovate, (2.5-)5–14 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, sparsely hairy or glabrous adaxially.

7–20-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (3–)4–13(–15) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

8–20-flowered, flowers spreading, later declined;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, sometimes divergent in fruit, 5–33 cm, together with racemes longer than stems.

4.5–8 cm.

1–4.5 mm.

0.8–3.5 mm.

15–25.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, cylindric, or subcylindric, 7–12 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 4.9–9.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–3(–4) mm;

corolla whitish with keel tip purple, sometimes banner and wings also purple-tipped, sometimes purple throughout;

banner recurved through 30–45°, oblanceolate or broadly rhombic-oblanceolate, 16–25.5 mm, apex emarginate;

keel 11.6–17.5 mm.

14–18.7 mm;

calyx subcylindric, 7.9–10 mm, strigulose or villosulous, tube 5.8–7.2 mm, lobes subulate, 2–3.5 mm;

corolla pale purple (drying dull lavender);

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11–14.4 mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, oblong-ellipsoid to narrowly oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 12–25 × 4.3–8 mm, sub-bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous or strigulose;

septum to 1.4 mm wide;

sessile.

humistrate, spreading, or declined, often red-mottled, subsymmetric, ovoid-acuminate or ovoid-ellipsoid, subterete, bladdery-inflated, 22–28 × 11–16 mm, papery-membranous, translucent, loosely strigulose to villosulous;

stipe 1.5–3 mm.

15–30.

22–26.

= 22.