Flora of North America species comparison

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

single or few to many.

(4–)6–13 cm;

leaflets 11–17(–23), blades broadly obovate, ovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)6–15 mm, apex shallowly notched or obtuse.

odd-pinnate, petiolate to subsessile;

leaflets (3–)7–27(or 29).

shortly and loosely 5–12(–18)-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.7–2(–4) cm in fruit.

loosely or remotely flowered or subumbellate, flowers ascending to spreading or declined.

1.5–6 cm.

(11.3–)15–19 mm;

calyx (6.5–)7–12.5 mm, tube (4.5–)5.6–8.2 mm, lobes (1.4–)2–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple.

usually white, lilac, purple, or pink- to magenta-purple, lavender, or violet, sometimes ochroleucous or yellowish, keel apex usually purple, banner recurved through 30–50°, keel apex round, obtuse, or bluntly deltate.

tubes cylindric or campanulate.

green, red-mottled, becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, 1–2.5 × 0.7–1.6 cm, leathery, glabrous;

beak 2.5–5 mm, bilocular.

usually deciduous, sometimes persistent, usually sessile, rarely short-stipitate, ascending, spreading, deflexed, or declined, linear, narrowly lanceoloid to oblanceoloid or ellipsoid, oblong, ovoid to obovoid, subglobose, or triangular-obcordate, ventral suture deeply grooved and appearing ± didymous, strongly inflated, terete, dorsiventrally compressed, or 3-sided compressed, straight or curved, usually bilocular, sometimes semibilocular or unilocular.

(12–)22–28.

(7–)10–42.

basifixed.

distinct.