Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually ascending, rarely decumbent, 0–2 cm underground, strigulose to pilose-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.

2.5–12 cm;

stipules 1.5–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–17, blades lanceolate to oblong, (3–)5–30(–32) mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces usually strigulose, sometimes villous-pilosulous, cinereous, glabrate, or glabrous abaxially, glabrous, glabrescent, or sparsely strigose 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.

(3–)5–25(–33)-flowered;

axis 1–18(–20) cm in fruit, elongating little after flowering, arising distal to middle of stem;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles usually 0.

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

incurved-ascending or erect, 3.5–21(–23) cm, usually surpassing subtending leaf, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

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.

(6–)7.2–11.5 mm;

calyx 4–6.8 mm, strigulose, tube 3.2–4.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–2.3 mm;

corolla usually purple, pink-purple, pink, lilac, lavender, or whitish, sometimes whitish with maculate keel;

wing apex obtuse;

keel 5.4–7.9 mm, shorter than wings.

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.

pendulous, green or purplish, straight or slightly decurved, ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, faces slightly convex, flattened or depressed but not sulcate abaxially, 13–25 × 3.5–5.5 mm, subunilocular or semibilocular, papery-membranous, sparsely strigulose, hairs black or black and white;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 0.2–2 mm wide;

stipe (0.5–)1.5–6.5 mm.

34–77.

6–11.