Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect to ascending, strigulose to pilose.

(3–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate and scarious-papery at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–5 mm;

leaflets (17–)21–29, blades flat or loosely folded, oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic, 3–13 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

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.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

10–25-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (2–)3–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(2–)4–11 cm.

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

0.6–1.5 mm.

1.2–4.5 mm.

5.8–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.4–4.3 mm, strigulose, hairs black and/or white, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2 mm;

corolla whitish or, sometimes, greenish ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner abruptly incurved through 90°;

keel 4.2–5.6 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.

stramineous, straight or slightly incurved or decurved, linear-oblong or linear-oblanceolate, 3-sided compressed, 15–30 × (2.5–)3–4 mm, bilocular, papery, glabrous;

valves inflexed as complete septum 1.4–1.9 mm wide;

stipe 1.5–2.5 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.

12–16.

24–38.

= 24.