Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually few or several, sometimes single, decumbent to ascending, when developed, with several, short internodes, to 2 cm, villous-tomentose.

(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.

(2–)5–32 cm;

stipules (3–)4–20 mm;

leaflets (9 or)11–35, blades elliptic, suborbiculate, ovate, obovate, rhombic-elliptic, rhombic-obovate, rhombic-ovate, oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, or oval, (2–)3–30(–45) mm, apex acute, obtuse, retuse, or subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose, sometimes densely so.

(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.

(5–)7–45-flowered;

axis (0.5–)1–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–10(–12) mm;

bracteoles 0(–2).

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

ascending, (1.5–)2.5–24 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.5–3 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.

11.8–25 mm;

calyx cylindric to deeply campanulate, 6.8–15.5 mm, villous-tomentose, tube (4.5–)5–13 mm, lobes lanceolate to subulate or subulate-setaceous, 1.6–5.5(–6.8) mm;

corolla pink-purple, pale purple, pinkish, cream, or yellowish suffused with dull lavender, or tipped and suffused or margined with dull purple;

keel 9–20.5 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 ascending, ± straight to incurved through 0.25+ spiral, oblong-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, ovoid, or ovoid-ellipsoid, sometimes decidedly inflated (not bladdery), terete when narrow, obcompressed when broad, (6–)9–24 × (3–)4–13 mm, fleshy, stiffly papery, leathery, or subligneous, glabrous, puberulent, hispidulous, villosulous, villous-hirsute, villous-tomentulose, or villous-tomentose;

beaks sometimes unilocular.

34–77.

12–38[–41].

= 22.