Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, strigulose.

decumbent or curved-ascending, glabrous.

(2–)3–11 cm;

stipules 3–9 mm, papery proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, 1–22(–30) mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

2–10 cm;

stipules 3–6 mm, membranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 13–21, blades elliptic to oblong, oblanceolate, or obovate, 2–12 mm, apex obtuse to truncate, surfaces glabrous.

(5–)7–27-flowered;

axis (1–)3.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(or 1).

(5 or)6–9-flowered, flowers spreading to ascending;

axis 3–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.2–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3.5–)5–18 cm, surpassing subtending leaf.

erect or ascending, 4.5–8.8 cm.

0.5–2 mm (0.8–3 mm in fruit).

2–3.5 mm.

(4.1–)5.5–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.3–5.4 mm, strigulose to pilosulous, tube 2.5–3.5 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 0.9–1.6 mm;

corolla blue-purple, pale pink, or whitish;

keel 4–5.7 mm.

17–21 mm;

calyx greenish to stramineous, 6.3–8 mm, sparsely black-strigose, tube 5–6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2 mm;

corolla white;

banner recurved through 30°;

keel 13–15 mm, apex obtuse.

spreading or reflexed, dark when dry, usually somewhat decurved, subsymmetrically or obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, (4–)5–12(–13) × (2.3–)2.5–5.5 mm, sub-bilocular, firmly papery, base cuneate, apex shortly cuspidate, strigose-pilosulous;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum (0.2–)0.4–1.2 mm wide;

sessile or subsessile.

ascending, stramineous, straight, oblong-ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, inflated, 15–23 × 6–11 mm, thinly leathery, scabrid-pubescent;

unilocular;

stipe 2–2.5 mm.

4–8.

20–38.

= 16, 32.