Flora of North America species comparison

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

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

(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.

(1.5–)2.5–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 4–9 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (7–)11–21(–25), blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblanceolate, (2–)3–12 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or emarginate, surfaces ashen-strigulose.

(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.

densely 7–26-flowered, flowers in subcapitate cluster, ascending to spreading becoming declined proximally;

axis slightly elongating to 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

 ±scapelike, incurved-ascending, (2.5–)3.5–15(–22) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.6–1.6 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.

6.2–10.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.7–6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.3–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.7 mm;

corolla pink to pink-purple, wing tips white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 45–50°;

keel 4.3–6.8 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes 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.

in oblong or globose, headlike clusters, spreading and ascending, reddish-tinged becoming brownish, slightly incurved, obliquely-ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided and somewhat laterally compressed, 4.5–7.5 × 2–4.2 mm, fleshy and firm becoming stiffly papery or somewhat leathery, strigulose.

34–77.

7–11.

= 22.