Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

ascending to ± erect, usually strigulose, sometimes glabrescent.

(1.5–)2.5–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 4–9 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (7–)11–21(–25), blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblanceolate, (2–)3–12 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or emarginate, surfaces ashen-strigulose.

3–13 cm;

stipules connate throughout, 4–10 mm, scarious or subherbaceous;

leaflets 15–29, blades narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–12(–18) mm, apex rounded or slightly retuse, surfaces strigulose.

densely 7–26-flowered, flowers in subcapitate cluster, ascending to spreading becoming declined proximally;

axis slightly elongating to 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

4–15-flowered, flowers ascending-erect;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

 ±scapelike, incurved-ascending, (2.5–)3.5–15(–22) cm.

1–10 cm.

0.6–1.6 mm.

1 mm.

6.2–10.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.7–6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.3–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.7 mm;

corolla pink to pink-purple, wing tips white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 45–50°;

keel 4.3–6.8 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes beaklike.

16–22 mm;

calyx cylindric, 7–10 mm, sparsely or densely strigulose, sometimes also pilosulous, tube 5–7.8 mm, lobes linear, 2.5–5.5 mm;

corolla blue-violet, pale blue, or pale lilac, often drying yellowish;

keel 12–15 mm.

in oblong or globose, headlike clusters, spreading and ascending, reddish-tinged becoming brownish, slightly incurved, obliquely-ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided and somewhat laterally compressed, 4.5–7.5 × 2–4.2 mm, fleshy and firm becoming stiffly papery or somewhat leathery, strigulose.

ascending to spreading or erect, straight or slightly incurved, narrowly oblong to narrowly ellipsoidal, 12–15 × 3 mm, widely keeled ventrally, sulcate dorsally, thin, densely hirsutulous with white hairs;

stipe 0.5 mm.

7–11.

= 22.

= 16.