Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, strigulose to pilose.

decumbent to ascending, strigulose, villosulous, glabrous, or with few scattered hairs.

5–14(–16.5) cm;

stipules 4–12 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (3–)9–17(or 19), blades obovate-cuneate, broadly oblong-obovate, or oblong-elliptic to suborbiculate-obcordate, (5–)7–30(–35) mm, apex retuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous or, sometimes, sparsely pubescent adaxially.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules distinct, (1–)1.5–5 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(–25), blades obovate-cuneate, oblong-obovate, or elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, (7–)9–19(–21) mm, apex retuse or truncate to obtuse, surfaces strigulose or villosulous abaxially, strigose to glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

10–25-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (2–)3–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5–)10–25(–35)-flowered, flowers retrorsely imbricate, ascending then nodding;

axis 2–10(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect becoming weakly ascending, (5–)7–17 cm.

erect or arcuate-erect, 4–15 cm.

1.2–4.5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

21–28 mm;

calyx purple, (7.6–)8–12.3 mm, strigulose to pilosulous, tube (6.3–)6.7–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, (1.3–)1.8–2.7 mm;

corolla usually magenta-purple, reddish purple, or pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 17.4–21 mm, apex round.

13.5–21 mm;

calyx broadly campanulate to broadly cylindric (gibbous-saccate or gibbous-truncate), 6.1–13.6 mm, strigulose or villosulous, marcescent, tube 5.4–11.9 mm, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.4–2.3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, or lemon yellow;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–15.2 mm.

ascending to spreading, light green, sometimes suffused with red, becoming stramineous, straight, oblong-, ovoid-, or broadly ellipsoid, inflated, hardly bladdery, 20–30 × 10–14 mm, papery, strigulose;

unilocular;

stipe 1–1.5 mm.

pendulous, green or purple-spotted becoming brown-stramineous, hamately or lunately incurved or, rarely, coiled through 1.5 spirals, narrowly oblong, laterally compressed, 14–35 × (2.7)3–4.5(–5.5) mm, stiffly papery or thinly leathery, usually glabrous, villosulous, or strigulose, rarely glabrate;

stipe 6–20 mm.

24–38.

14–25(–28).

= 24.