Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect-ascending, 1–8 cm underground, 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.

3.5–6.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–4.5 mm;

leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades linear, 8–28 mm, apex acute, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(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.

5–19-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 3–10.5(–13.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.3–0.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

1.2–12 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

2–2.5 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.

4.3–6.1 mm;

calyx campanulate, 1.8–3 mm, strigose, tube 1.2–1.8 mm, slightly expanding in fruit, lobes triangular, 0.6–1 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly suffused with purple, keel maculate.

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.

declined, straight or slightly curved, ellipsoid to oblong, strongly laterally compressed, 9–12 × 2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

stipe 0–0.2 mm.

34–77.

4–5.