Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, strigulose.

prostrate, strigose-strigulose or villous to pilosulous.

(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.

1–4(–6) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, sometimes distinct, 0.8–3(–5) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate-cuneate, 1.5–9 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or emarginate, surfaces sparsely villosulous abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

(5–)7–27-flowered;

axis (1–)3.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(or 1).

densely or loosely 2–13(–15)-flowered, flowers ascending then declined;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–2.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

0.3–2.5 cm.

0.5–2 mm (0.8–3 mm in fruit).

0.4–1.3 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.

4.4–10(–12) mm;

calyx obconic-campanulate, (2.2–)2.6–4.7(–5) mm, sparsely villosulous, tube 1.1–2 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2.7 mm;

corolla whitish and banner veins faintly lilac, or rose-purple with pale basal eye;

banner recurved through 60–100°;

keel 3.5–3.7 mm, apex broadly deltate.

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.

spreading, yellowish, straight, ovoid-lenticular, obscurely 3-sided, 3.3–4.5 × 1.5–4.2 mm, unilocular, thinly papery, minutely strigulose to silky-villous.

4–8.

2 or 3(or 4).

= 16, 32.