Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent or ascending, villosulous.

(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.

5.5–15 cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–8(–12) mm, herbaceous;

leaflets (11–)17–27(or 29), blades oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, or obovate, (4–)7–22(–25) mm, apex acute or truncate and apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so 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.

(8–)10–30(–35)-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–15(–20) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 3.5–10(–12) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1–6.4 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.

8.3–11.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.5–8.7 mm, densely villosulous, tube 3.6–4.5 mm, lobes lanceolate or subulate, 2.5–4.3 mm;

corolla pale or greenish yellow;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.5–9.1 mm, apex sharply triangular, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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 to declined or ascending, pale green, usually red-cheeked, becoming stramineous, straight, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 20–40 × 14–20 mm, thin becoming papery, sparsely to quite densely villosulous or strigulose-villosulous, hairs 1+ mm.

34–77.

29–52.