Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending to erect, 1–9(–15) cm underground, 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.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, (1–)1.5–4 mm;

leaflets 7–17, blades linear, linear-oblong to narrowly oblong, oblanceolate, or cuneate-oblong, (3–)5–20(–25) mm, apex retuse, surfaces 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.

loosely (6–)12–45(–55)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1.5–)3–13(–17) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect, ascending or incurved, or divaricate, 3–13 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.7–1.8 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.

5.3–8.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 2.1–3.3 mm, strigose, tube 1–2.7 mm, lobes deltate to triangular-subulate, 0.4–0.9 mm;

corolla pink-purple, banner purple-veined;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.7–6.1 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.

declined or deflexed, brown or stramineous, obliquely subglobose, plumply ovoid, or ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, (4–)4.3–8(–9) × 2.3–3.6 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigulose to villosulous;

sessile.

34–77.

5–9.