Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, current season stems 3–10 cm underground, strigulose or villosulous.

(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.

3–8 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades obovate-cuneate, 4–12 mm, apex obtuse, retuse, or obcordate, surfaces strigulose or villosulous abaxially, strigose to glabrescent 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.

9–15-flowered;

axis 3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or divaricate-ascending, 1–6.5 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1–1.5 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.

14–17 mm;

calyx 5–6.5 mm, strigose, tube 5–6 mm, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.5–0.9 mm;

corolla keel 12–13 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.

pale green sometimes mottled becoming stramineous, coiled through 1.5–2 spirals into a closed ring, 3.5–4 mm wide, scarcely fleshy becoming stiffly papery, sparsely villous;

stipe 10–15 mm.

34–77.