Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

ascending and radiating, to 6(–9) cm underground, strigulose.

(2–)4–17 cm;

stipules 4–13(–16) mm, papery-scarious, pallid;

leaflet blades oblong to elliptic, (4–)7–27(–33) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces sparsely to moderately strigose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

(4–)6–18 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 2–7(–9) mm, membranous or subherbaceous, strigulose abaxially;

petiolate;

leaflets (11–)15–25(–29), blades elliptic, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, rhombic-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, 5–20 mm, apex obtuse, subacute, or retuse, surfaces cinereous-strigulose.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)15–30-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (2.5–)3.5–11.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3–)4–14(–16.5) cm.

erect or ascending, 3.5–10 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

1.3–3.4 mm.

11.5–19.5 mm;

calyx [4.8–]5.6–10.5 mm, strigulose, tube [3–]4–7 × 2–3.2 mm, lobes subulate or subulate-setaceous, 0.4–4.2 mm;

corolla keel 8–15 mm.

16–23 mm;

calyx purplish or reddish, cylindro-campanulate, 10.4–14.7 mm, finely strigulose, tube 7.3–10 mm, lobes subulate or lanceolate, (2.6–)3–5 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple, keel maculate;

keel 15.4–18.1 mm.

stramineous, ovoid-, oblong-, or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, or narrowly oblong, [5.5–]6–12 × 2.3–4 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose;

stipe 0–1.8 mm.

pale green or suffused purple becoming stramineous suffused with brown-purple, usually straight, rarely slightly incurved, broadly and plumply oblong-cylindroid, oblong-ellipsoid, or more narrowly cylindro- or clavate-ellipsoid, terete or slightly laterally or dorsiventrally compressed, 25–45(–50) × (8–)10–21 mm, bilocular, fleshy and succulent, becoming thick and plump, mesocarp at least 1.5 mm, glabrous.

(41–)45–66.

= 24.