Flora of North America species comparison

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

obscured by stipules.

(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.

3.5–11.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 3–11 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19, blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, rhombic, or broadly oblanceolate, 4–13 mm, apex subacute, obtuse and apiculate, or obtuse, surfaces pilose 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.

10–30-flowered, flowers in compact cluster, ascending to spreading becoming declined proximally;

axis not elongating in fruit;

bracts 3–8.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

scapiform, incurved-ascending, 4.5–15(–20) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.4–1 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.

9.5–11.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5.9–8.2 mm, sparsely hirsute, tube 3.4–5.2 mm, lobes lanceolate-linear to setaceous, 1.9–3 mm;

corolla dull reddish purple, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7.9–9.1 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.

in oblong or globose, headlike clusters, spreading and ascending, green or purple-tinged becoming stramineous or brownish, plumply ovoid or subglobose, terete or somewhat laterally compressed, 5–7 × 4–4.5 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, sparsely long-hirsute.

34–77.

8–12.