Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually 3–10, decumbent 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.

2–5(–6) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–4 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades oblong-obovate, -ovate, or obovate-cuneate, (2–)3–12 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, surfaces glabrous.

(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.

(3–)7–15-flowered, flowers ascending becoming spreading, later declined;

axis (0.4–)1–3.5(–4.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

divaricate, 1–4(–5.5) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.6–1.8 mm (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.

6.7–9.1 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.5–4.5 mm, strigulose, tube 2–2.6 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.3–1.9 mm;

corolla whitish, banner with lavender veins;

banner incurved through 45°;

keel 4.1–5.7 mm, apex obtuse, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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.

deflexed or declined, purplish green becoming stramineous then brownish, lunately incurved, usually obliquely linear-oblong, oblanceoloid, or semi-ellipsoid, rarely semi-ovoid, somewhat inflated, almost bladdery, usually ± 3-sided compressed, (10–)15–28 × 3–9 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, sparsely and minutely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange to 2.5 mm wide, septum 0.5–1 mm.

34–77.

(6–)8–14.

= 28.