Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, 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.

3–9(–10.5) cm;

stipules distinct, 2–5(–7) mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(–25), blades oblong-oblanceolate, narrowly obovate-cuneate, or linear-elliptic, 4–20(–22) mm, apex truncate-retuse to obtuse or retuse, surfaces villosulous abaxially, strigose to glabrescent or 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–)15–40(–55)-flowered;

axis (3–)4–12(–18) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)5–16 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.8–2.8 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.

(10.5–)12–17.2 mm;

calyx campanulate to broadly cylindric, gibbous-saccate, 7–12.3 mm, strigose, tube 5.8–9.4 mm, lobes lanceolate to triangular-subulate or triangular, (0.8–)1–2.7(–3.5) mm;

corolla cream to pale lemon yellow;

banner usually sigmoidally arched and apex very abruptly and strongly folded over calyx to more than 100°, sometimes recurved through 50°;

keel 8.7–13.2 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.

pendulous, stramineous, straight or gently incurved, linear-oblong or obliquely ovoid-oblong, laterally compressed, 7–25 × 2.3–4.2 mm, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery, usually villosulous or strigulose, rarely glabrous;

stipe (3.5–)5–15 mm.

34–77.

(7 or)8–18.