Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to decumbent, finely cinereous, glabrous, or glabrate.

erect and incurved-ascending, strigulose.

2–8 cm;

stipules 2–6 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous;

leaflets (7 or)9–19(or 21), blades obovate to oblong or oblanceolate to elliptic, 3–18 mm, apex truncate to retuse, obtuse, or mucronate, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially.

(2.5–)3–8 cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–5.5 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets (11–)17–25, blades oval-oblong, oblanceolate, narrowly obovate, ovate, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, (3–)4–11 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

7–17-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis 0.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(10–)15–25(–30)-flowered;

axis (2.5–)6–18(–22) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending or incurved, 1–4.5 cm.

erect or incurved, (2–)4–11 cm, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

0.3–2 mm.

0.8–1.8 mm.

9–15.5 mm;

calyx shortly cylindric, (3.3–)5–8 mm, strigose, tube 2.6–5 mm, lobes subulate, (0.6–)1–3 mm;

corolla usually purple, lilac, or whitish, rarely cream (concolorous), sometimes keel tips purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7.5–12 mm.

6.3–7.2 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.2–4.1 mm, strigulose, hairs white, black, or fuscous, tube 2.1–2.6 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes tinged with lavender;

banner abruptly incurved through 100°;

keel 4.6–5.5 mm.

disjointing from receptacle when mature, ascending to declined, green, often red-mottled, becoming stramineous or purplish, curved through 0.25–0.5+ spiral, obliquely lanceoloid, dorsiventrally or 3-sided compressed, (20–)25–40 × (2.5–)3–8.5 mm, unilocular to semibilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigose;

sessile.

stramineous, straight or nearly so, linear-oblong or ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided compressed, 13–22 × 3.2–4.1 mm, incompletely bilocular, papery, black-strigulose;

valves inflexed as nearly complete septum 0.8–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 2.2–5 mm.

14–30.

7–13.

= 22.