Flora of North America species comparison

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

slender, ascending, 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.

2–4 cm;

stipules connate, bidentate, 2.5–5 mm, membranous;

leaflets 9–15, blades ovate-elliptic, 2.5–8 mm, apex obtuse or acute, 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.

(1 or)2–4-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–4 cm in fruit.

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

erect, very slender, 1.5–8 cm.

2–7.5 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.

5–6.2 mm;

calyx 2–3.5 mm, strigose, hairs white or black, tube 1.2–2.5 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 0.7–1.2 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.

spreading or pendulous, red-mottled, ellipsoid, subinflated, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, 8–14 × 4–6 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose or glabrous;

gynophore 0.5–0.8 mm.

34–77.

16–18.