Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or decumbent, 1–9 cm underground, sparsely strigulose.

ascending and radiating, strigulose.

(2–)3.5–18 cm;

stipules distinct, 3–10 mm, submembranous, glabrous abaxially; petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)15–33, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, obovate, suborbiculate, or broadly oval to linear-elliptic, (2–)3–24 mm, apex obtuse, acute, subacute, or truncate-emarginate, sometimes apiculate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous or glabrescent adaxially.

4–10 cm;

stipules usually distinct throughout, rarely connate at proximal nodes, 1.5–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9 or)11–21, blades oblong-obovate, oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, (4–)6–21 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or retuse and apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose or glabrous adaxially.

(5–)6–25(–35)-flowered, flowers ascending or slightly arched;

axis 1–7(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

10–20-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1.5–)3.5–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending to spreading, (1.5–)2–16 cm.

incurved-ascending, 3–9(–11) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1–4 mm.

(16–)16.5–25(–27) mm;

calyx usually broadly or deeply campanulate or cylindro-campanulate, rarely cylindric, (6.6–)7.7–14 mm, densely strigulose, pilosulous, ascending-pilose, or villosulous-tomentulose, tube (5.2–)5.6–9.7 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, (1.3–)1.7–4.2(–5.8) mm;

corolla pink-purple, red-purple, white, whitish (faintly lilac-tinged), lilac, ochroleucous, or suffused pinkish lilac;

keel (10.7–)12–20.7 mm.

7.2–9.4 mm;

calyx campanulate or turbinate-campanulate, (3.6–)4.1–5.7 mm, strigulose, tube 2.4–3.5 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.1–)1.6–2.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple or reddish purple;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 6.2–7.5 mm, apex blunt or subacute, slightly beaklike.

green, often red-mottled or suffused with red on adaxial surface, becoming brown or blackish, straight, globose, subglobose, broadly and plumply oblong-ellipsoid, oblong-ovoid, or oblong-obovoid, ± obcompressed, 15–40 × 12–27 mm, fleshy becoming alveolate-spongy or pithy, wrinkled on drying, mesocarp at least 1.2 mm thick, glabrous.

spreading or declined, or humistrate and ascending, pale green or purple-cheeked becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ellipsoid or semi-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, (20–)25–40(–45) × 10–17 mm, beak prominent, clearly differentiated from body, thin becoming papery, translucent, lustrous, finely strigulose.

34–77.

(10–)14–21.

= 22.