Flora of North America species comparison

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

few, decumbent or prostrate to ascending, (0–)1.5–13 cm underground, hirsutulous.

(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.

4.5–14 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, stramineous or whitish-papery at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets 15–29, blades obovate to oblong or elliptic, 3–25 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate, surfaces hirtellous 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.

10–24-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 1.2–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved-ascending, procumbent in fruit, 4–12 mm.

2–7.5 mm.

1–2.5 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.

16–22 mm;

calyx cylindric, 10–15 mm, hirsutulous, tube 7–12 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 2–6.2 mm;

corolla dull pink-purple;

keel 16–17 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.

firmly attached to receptacle, falling while still attached to pedicel, declined to ascending (sometimes humistrate), brown or purple-dotted, incurved through 0.25–0.5 spiral, oblong, laterally compressed, sides convex, elliptic in cross section, dorsal suture forming a prominent ridge, 25–40 × 5–8 mm, bilocular, middle narrower or not wider than high in cross section, ± fleshy becoming papery, hirsutulous, hairs 0.3–0.5 mm;

stipe 2–3 mm.

34–77.

24–30.