Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending, 3–13 cm underground, 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.

1.5–8.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and stiff-papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 3–9 mm;

leaflet blades oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, some narrowly so, 2–19 mm, apex acute to obtuse or mucronate, surfaces sparsely strigose or glabrous 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.

4–22-flowered;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, 2–14 cm, shorter or much longer than leaves.

2–7.5 mm.

1–4 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.

18–24 mm;

calyx 9–11.5(–14) mm, strigulose, tube 6.5–8.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–4(–6) mm;

corolla concolorous or keel faintly purplish;

keel 13.6–15.4 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.

green, sometimes also purple, becoming brown, incurved to nearly straight, sulcate abaxially, 18–35 × 3–6.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

valves inflexed as complete septum 2–4 mm wide;

stipe 4–9 mm.

34–77.

= 22.