Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, incurved-ascending, 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–)2–6.5(–9) cm;

stipules 1.5–5 mm, herbaceous or submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (11 or)13–21(or 23), blades broadly to narrowly cuneate, cuneate-oblong, or -oblanceolate, 2–12(–17) mm, apex truncate-emarginate to deeply retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(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)2–6(–8)-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.2–1.5(–2.4) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.3–5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

ascending or incurved-ascending, (2–)2–6.5 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1–3 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.

(12–)13–18.5 mm;

calyx (4–)5–8 mm, strigulose, tube (2–)2.4–3.3 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate-subulate, (2–)2.3–5 mm;

corolla bicolored, banner margined purple around a prominent white (purple-veined) eye, wings white, fading yellowish, keel tip maculate;

banner recurved through 35°;

keel 9.5–13 mm, apex obtusely deltate.

puberulent proximal to stigma.

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 to declined, brown then blackish, incurved, linear-oblong or linear-oblanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, 17–27 × 3.5–6(–6.5) mm, thinly fleshy becoming thinly leathery or stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe (0.8–)1–2.6(–3) mm.

34–77.

8–12(–14).