Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or spreading, villous-tomentulose or white-pannose.

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.

4–10 cm;

stipules 1.5–4 mm;

leaflets 21–29, blades ovate, obovate, oval, or oblong-elliptic, 2.5–15 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

7–17-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis 0.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely 12–30-flowered;

axis 2.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending or incurved, 1–4.5 cm.

ascending, drooping or humistrate in fruit, 4–14 cm.

0.3–2 mm.

1–1.5 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.

14.2–17.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 7.5–9 mm, villous, tube 5.2–6.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.2–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

keel 10.2–12.9 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.

pendulous but appearing otherwise when humistrate, green-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, lanceoloid-oblong, semi-ellipsoid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 8–16 × 3.2–5.5 mm, leathery, villous-tomentulose;

septum 1.1–1.8 mm wide;

stipe 4–8.5 mm, pubescent.

14–30.

12–16.