Flora of North America species comparison

erect, incurved-ascending, or prostrate, strigulose.

(2–)3–12 cm;

stipules distinct, (1–)1.5–4(–5) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (9 or)11–19(or 21), blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, narrowly oblong, or lanceolate, 3–19 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or emarginate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose, glabrescent, or glabrous adaxially.

3–9-flowered, flowers horizontal becoming declined;

axis (0.5–)1–4(–6) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 0.8–7 cm.

0.4–2.2 mm.

5.5–7.4 mm;

calyx campanulate or turbinate-campanulate, 3.2–4.5 mm, strigulose, tube 1.8–2.7(–2.9) mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.2(–3) mm;

corolla reddish purple;

banner recurved through 50–60°;

keel 4.8–6 mm, apex deltate or triangular-acuminate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

spreading or declined, pale green and purple-suffused or -dotted, becoming stramineous, straight, very obliquely to subsymmetrically ovoid-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, [9–]14–23 × (5–)6–12(–15) mm, thin becoming papery, translucent, somewhat lustrous, sparsely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange to 2.5 mm wide.

7–12(–14).

= 22.