Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending, 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.

2.5–11 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, firm at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–17, blades oblong-oblanceolate, linear-oblong, or obovate, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent 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.

loosely 9–20-flowered;

axis 4.5–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 2.5–6(–10) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.8–2 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.

6.9–7.6 mm;

calyx 3.5–4 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 6.8–7.7 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.

pendulous, mottled (and glaucescent) becoming stramineous and faintly purple-tinged, slightly incurved, oblong-lanceoloid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 18–25 × 3–4.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

septum 2.4–2.7 mm wide;

stipe 3–4 mm.

34–77.

11–16.