Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to incurved-ascending or erect, densely gray-villous, densely white-tomentose basally.

(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.

(2–)3–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, (1.5–)2–7 mm, scarious proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets (9–)13–21, blades elliptic-oblanceolate to oval-obovate, 3–10(–14) mm, apex acute to abruptly short-acuminate, apiculate, or obtuse, surfaces villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrate 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.

12–20(–26)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 2.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)3–7 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.6–1.7 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.

9–14.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.2–8.2 mm, villous, tube 3.5–4.3 mm, lobes subulate or setaceous, 2.4–4.3 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, tinged or veins purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 6.6–9 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

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 to declined, stramineous, gently incurved or falcate, obliquely oblong, linear-oblong, or narrowly lanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, (10–)12–18 × 3–4.5 mm, thin becoming papery, villous or villous-villosulous.

34–77.

(10–)12–16.

= 24.