Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

(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.

2–9 cm;

stipules 1.5 mm, membranous;

leaflets 7–17, blades obovate-cuneate, obcordate to lanceolate, narrowly oblong, or linear-elliptic, 3–16 mm, apex retuse, truncate, obtuse, or acute, surfaces strigulose 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.

2–12-flowered, subcapitate, flowers loosely spreading;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

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

erect, incurved-ascending, or divaricate, 2.5–7 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.5–2.3 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.

5–11.8 mm;

calyx 2.7–5.4 mm, strigulose-villosulous, tube 1.6–3.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 0.9–2.3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, keel maculate;

banner recurved 30–40°;

keel 3.4–6.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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.

ascending, spreading, or declined, stramineous, straight or curved, linear- or narrowly lanceoloid-oblong, obscurely 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, (6–)10–50 × 1.7–3.5 mm, base round, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, strigulose, villosulous, or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle;

stipe 2.7–5 mm.

34–77.

5–14.