Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, fistulose, glabrous.

decumbent to ascending or erect, diffuse, 3–10(–17) cm underground, appressed-hairy or villosulous.

8–18 cm;

stipules distinct, (2–)3.5–7.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (19 or)21–29, blades ovate-oblong to lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, (4–)8–21 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, usually apiculate, surfaces sparsely strigose.

(2–)3–11 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, ± distinct or connate to 1/2 their length and herbaceous becoming papery at distal nodes, 2–6 mm;

leaflets 7–27, blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, obovate-cuneate, or linear-oblong, 3–16 mm, apex truncate-emarginate or obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, sparsely hairy adaxially.

(13–)18–25-flowered, flowers spreading or weakly ascending;

axis (5–)9–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles (0–)2.

5–19(–27)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1.5–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–6 mm;

bracteoles (0 or) 2.

erect or incurved-ascending, (6–)12–20 cm.

ascending, usually stout and ± straight, 2–8(–11.5) cm.

0.9–3.5 mm.

1–2.9 mm.

(9.5–)12–15 mm;

calyx purplish, campanulate, (4.7–)5–7.2 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube (2.7–)3–4.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2.7 mm;

corolla whitish, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 45°, 12–15 mm;

keel 8–10.5 mm, apex blunt and narrowly deltate.

13.4–21 mm;

calyx campanulate or cylindric-campanulate, 6–10.6 mm, villosulous, tube 4.9–8 mm, lobes subulate to triangular, 1.1–2.8 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple or pale and lilac-tinged;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 10.4–14 mm.

ascending, pale green and purplish-tinged becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely semi ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, (15–)20–28 × (8–)10–15(–18) mm, beak prominent, papery, sparsely strigulose.

spreading to declined, green, sometimes red-mottled, becoming brown or stramineous, straight or nearly so, oblong or ovoid-ellipsoid, turgid or somewhat inflated, not bladdery, 15–24 × (4.5–)5–9.5 mm, leathery, sparsely strigulose to villosulous;

sessile or subsessile.

29–40.

25–36.