Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent and ascending, 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.

1.5–6.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1–5(–6) mm, often drying blackish;

leaflets 9–15, blades narrowly to broadly elliptic to oblong, oblanceolate, or obovate-cuneate, 3–14(–18) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or 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.

4–20-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 1.5–4.5(–6) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

1–3 per leaf axil, 1.5–6.5(–8.5) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.7–2.5 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.

5.1–7.8(–8.3) mm;

calyx 2.7–3.8(–4.3) mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 1.5–2.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2(–2.3) mm;

corolla pink-purple, or whitish and purple-veined or -tipped, wing tips often pale or white;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.7–4.8 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.

spreading or declined, brown or stramineous, straight, plumply ellipsoid, obovoid-ellipsoid, or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, 5–12(–14) × 4–7 mm, slightly fleshy becoming papery-membranous, densely pilosulous;

sessile.

34–77.

6–8(or 9).