Flora of North America species comparison

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

few, erect or ascending, strigulose, cinereous.

(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.

4.5–8.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–2.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–11, blades lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 8–16 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrescent 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.

4–7-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

ascending or incurved, 1.5–2 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1–2 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.

6–6.3 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4 mm, strigulose, tube 2.1–2.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2 mm;

corolla whitish faintly lined pink;

banner recurved through 80°;

keel 4.3–4.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, 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.

spreading to declined, pale green and faintly brown-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, slightly obcompressed, 20–27 × 11–15 mm, thin, lustrous, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 3–3.5 mm wide.

34–77.

28–30.