Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, ascending, diffuse, or prostrate, sparsely strigose.

(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.

(0.8–)1–7.5 cm;

stipules (0.5–)1–5 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades linear-oblanceolate, -elliptic, oblanceolate, oblong-cuneate, or cuneate, 1.5–14 mm, apex deeply retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose, glabrate, 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.

(5–)7–30-flowered, flowers erect or ascending, straight;

axis 0.2–2(–2.2) cm in fruit, not elongating;

bracts 0.6–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, (0.5–)1–8 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.1–0.5(–0.6) 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.

2.8–10 mm;

calyx 2.5–5.7 mm, pilosulous or villosulous, tube 1.5–3.8 mm, lobes subulate to subulate-setaceous, 0.8–2.5 mm;

corolla whitish and tinged lavender, or pink-purple with white or pale wing tips;

keel 2.4–7.2 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.

erect or spreading, green or purple-tinged becoming brownish, straight, plumply ovoid or subglobose, somewhat laterally compressed, (2–)2.3–4 × 1.5–3 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, coarsely reticulate or ridged, strigulose, strigulose-hirsutulous, pilosulous, or glabrous;

gynophore slender, 0–0.5 mm.

34–77.