Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, sparsely 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.

1–6(–7) cm;

stipules distinct throughout, triangular or lanceolate, (1–)1.5–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (7–)11–17(or 19), blades oblong-, obovate-, or oblanceolate-cuneate, 2–11(–12) mm, apex retuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous, sometimes hairs present on margins and midrib abaxially.

(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)2–7(–12)-flowered, flowers spreading to ascending;

axis 0–1.2(–2) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or divaricate, (2–)2.5–9(–10) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.4–1.7 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.

(5.2–)8.3–12(–13.2) mm;

calyx (3–)3.6–4.5(–5.3) mm, strigulose, tube (1.8–)2–2.4(–2.8) mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.2–2.2(–2.8) mm;

corolla pink-purple, wings often marked with white;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (4.5–)6–7.8(–9) mm, apex narrowly acute-triangular, often beaklike.

style glabrous.

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.

dehiscent on plant, spreading or ascending, green or purplish becoming brownish then black, straight or slightly incurved, linear or linear-oblanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, (17–)20–37 × 2.2–3.1 mm, slightly fleshy becoming papery, glabrous;

stipe 0 mm or pseudostipe to 0.5 mm.

34–77.

(17–)20–26.

= 26.