Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, 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.

distally (rarely all) unifoliolate or reduced to phyllodia, 3–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 3.5–5 mm;

leaflets (0 or 1–)3–9, blades obovate or linear, 2–12 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces sparsely strigulose;

terminal leaflet of compound leaves 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.

loosely 3–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–9(–12) cm;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, 10–25 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.5–3.5 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.

14.6–18(–22) mm;

calyx 5.0–7.8 mm, strigose, tube 3.8–5.3 × 3.7–3.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–2.8 mm;

corolla white, keel tip pink-purple fading dark purple;

keel 11.3–12.3 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.

erect, stramineous, ± straight, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, slightly compressed laterally, (10–)12–17(–20) × 4.4–6 mm, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous or strigose;

sessile.

34–77.

18–20.