Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending to ± erect, usually strigulose, sometimes glabrescent.

(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.

3–13 cm;

stipules connate throughout, 4–10 mm, scarious or subherbaceous;

leaflets 15–29, blades narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–12(–18) mm, apex rounded or slightly retuse, surfaces strigulose.

(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.

4–15-flowered, flowers ascending-erect;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

1–10 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1 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.

16–22 mm;

calyx cylindric, 7–10 mm, sparsely or densely strigulose, sometimes also pilosulous, tube 5–7.8 mm, lobes linear, 2.5–5.5 mm;

corolla blue-violet, pale blue, or pale lilac, often drying yellowish;

keel 12–15 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.

ascending to spreading or erect, straight or slightly incurved, narrowly oblong to narrowly ellipsoidal, 12–15 × 3 mm, widely keeled ventrally, sulcate dorsally, thin, densely hirsutulous with white hairs;

stipe 0.5 mm.

34–77.

= 16.