Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, strigulose.

(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.

1–3.5(–4) cm;

stipules 3–11 mm, membranous or papery;

leaflets 3–9, blades ovate to obovate or elliptic, (2–)3–7 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces pilose-tomentose, hairs gray or silvery.

(5–)7–27-flowered;

axis (1–)3.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(or 1).

1- or 2-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 3 mm.

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

to 1 cm.

0.5–2 mm (0.8–3 mm in fruit).

2 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.

24–25 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12.5–15 mm, villous-tomentose, tube 9.5–11 mm, lobes subulate, 3–4 mm;

corolla pale lilac, fading ochroleucous, tips purplish;

banner only slightly recurved.

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 (humistrate), strongly curved or lunate, obliquely lanceoloid-ovoid, obcompressed, 18 × 10 mm, unilocular, leathery, tomentulose-pilose.

4–8.

32.

= 16, 32.