Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, glabrate to densely 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.

2.5–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2–5 mm;

leaflets (5–)9–23, blades linear to narrowly elliptic or oblong, 3–25(–30) mm, apex obtuse to truncate, retuse, or subacute, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes strigose.

(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–)6–30-flowered, 1 per leaf axil;

axis 4–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or ascending, 4.5–22 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1.5–6 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.

10–14.3(–15) mm;

calyx subcylindric to campanulate, 4–7.7 mm, strigulose, hairs black and white, tube 3.3–6.4 × 2.4–3.5(–4.4) mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish to ochroleucous, keel immaculate or bright yellow;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel abruptly incurved through 95–120°, blades about as long as claws, (6.7–)7.6–10(–12) mm, apex deltate or triangular.

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.

pale green, not mottled, not stramineous, straight, oblong to ellipsoid, strongly laterally compressed, 17–30(–35) × (3–)3.5–6.5 mm, papery, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe 6–16 mm.

34–77.

11–22.

= 22, 24.