Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect and ascending; 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.

distalmost unifoliolate, sometimes also proximalmost, 3–8 cm;

stipules usually distinct throughout, rarely shortly connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 1.5–9.5 mm, firm, early becoming papery;

leaflets (1 or)3–7, blades elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–47 × 2–9(–13) mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

(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.

7–30-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 2–11 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect and incurved-ascending, 2.5–15.5 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1.2–3 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.

(16–)20–24 mm;

calyx light brown, cylindric-gibbous, (7–)8.2–11(–12) mm, strigose, tube (5.5–)6.5–9.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–2.6(–4) mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 13.7–16.6 mm, apex bluntly or sharply deltate.

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.

pendulous, brown, straight, ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, sometimes becoming subterete, 25–35 × 4–7.5 mm, papery, strigose;

stipe 8–12 mm.

34–77.

16–22.