Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

erect or incurved-ascending, diffuse, glabrous or glabrate.

erect, 1–4 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, membranous becoming papery;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades linear to narrowly elliptic, 1–5 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet often decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

3.5–15 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–25, blades obovate, suborbiculate, obcordate to oblong, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, 6–28 mm, apex retuse-emarginate to rounded, obtuse, acute, or truncate, sometimes apiculate, surfaces glabrous, hairs sometimes on margins or midrib.

3–7-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.2–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 0.5–3.5 cm, together with racemes subequal to or ± surpassing leaves.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

1–2.5 mm.

1–5.5 mm.

5–6.5 mm;

calyx 2.3–3 mm, strigose, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–1 mm;

corolla pink-purple or white;

keel 3.7–4.4 mm.

14–24 mm;

calyx purple, 6.4–12.3 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 5.1–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple, bicolored, or white to pale greenish yellow and, sometimes, modestly suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel (11.1–)11.5–19 mm, apex blunt.

green with purple mottling, slightly curved, subglobose, 10–17 × 7–11 mm, papery-membranous, strigose.

dehiscent on plant, erect to ascending, green or red-dotted becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, ellipsoid, ovoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, inflated, 12–34 × 6–13 mm, unilocular, stiffly papery to leathery, glabrous or puberulent;

stipe 0–7 mm.

10–14.

20–44.