Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to ascending, 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.

5–21 cm;

stipules 2.5–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (15–)19–27(or 29), blades oblong, oblong-oblanceolate, or linear-oblong to linear, 5–25 mm, apex truncate to retuse or apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, 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(–25)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (3–)5–27 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect, 8–20(–25) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.7–4 mm, little, if any, clavate thickening in fruit.

(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.

13–15.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5.1–6.6 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 3.8–4.9 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.9 mm;

corolla white or cream, drying ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 10.2–11.8(–12.5) mm.

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.

erect, greenish stramineous, straight, linear-oblong or narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, lateral face convex, dorsal face scarcely narrower, grooved or not, 14–24(–28) × 2.7–4.5 mm, ± bilocular, firm and scarcely fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous or strigulose;

septum 0.8–1.7 mm wide;

stipe (2.5–)3–6 mm.

34–77.

20–29.

= 22.