Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending.

3–11 cm;

leaflets 15–21, blades lanceolate-elliptic to obovate, 8–18 mm, apex emarginate.

(4–)6–16 cm;

leaflets 19–25, blades oblong-oblanceolate to broadly obovate or rhombic-obovate, (3–)7–25 mm, apex usually retuse.

7–17-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit.

closely becoming loosely (10–)15–32-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (2.5–)4.5–11(–13) cm in fruit.

3–6.5 cm.

4–11 cm.

17–20 mm;

calyx 7–10.4 mm, tube 6–6.8 mm, lobes 3–3.5 mm;

corolla pale violet.

12–17(–18.5) mm;

calyx 6.4–8.2 mm, tube 4.7–6.2 mm, lobes 1.4–2.5 mm;

corolla creamy yellow or greenish yellow to greenish white (immaculate), yellow when dry, petals well-graduated, banner longer than wings, wings well exceeding keel.

green, sometimes mottled, becoming stramineous, ovoid, greatly inflated, 19–27 × 11–16(–19) mm, semibilocular, stiffly papery, thinly translucent, glabrous.

mottled, obliquely ovoid-acuminate, greatly inflated, (17–)20–35 × 10–20 mm, bilocular, papery, villosulous;

beak 4–8 mm, unilocular.

30–35.