Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or diffuse, flexuous, becoming decumbent-sprawling, sparsely strigose-pilose or glabrate.

(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.

2–10 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, herbaceous, becoming membranous;

leaflets 17–29(or 31), blades lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, 5–35 mm, apex obtuse, apiculate, or acute, surfaces strigulose, sometimes 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.

(6–)10–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1.5–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 3.5–11 cm, together with racemes shorter than leaves.

2–7.5 mm.

0.3–1.5 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.

12.5–16.5 mm;

calyx subcylindric, 6.5–9 mm, strigulose, tube 5–6 mm, lobes triangular-acuminate, 1.6–3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous;

keel 9.6–10.5 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.

ascending to spreading, black, straight, obovoid to subglobose, inflated but firm, hardly bladdery, 6–14 × 5–10(–12) mm, sulcate ventrally, fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, pilose;

stipe to 0.8 mm.

34–77.

= 16, 32, 48, 64.