Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, 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.

3–10.5 cm;

stipules 4–9 mm;

leaflets 5–11, blades flat, rhombic-oval to obovate or elliptic, 6–35(–50) mm, apex mucronate, surfaces strigose or glabrous.

(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.

4–10-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved, 3.5–7 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

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.

23–34 mm;

calyx 12–17.5 mm, strigulose, tube 11–14 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla ochroleucous (fading yellowish), or white (fading off-white);

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 22–23 mm, apex blunt.

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, pallid-stramineous or brownish, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, inflated, 20–48 × 9–15 mm, moderately fleshy-thickened, becoming stiffly papery to leathery, strigose;

unilocular;

subsessile or substipitate.

34–77.

55–59.