Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate.

erect and ascending.

2–5 cm;

leaflets 3 or 5, blades linear-oblanceolate, 7–15 mm, terminal leaflet 14–30 mm, apex obtuse or subacute.

(5–)7–16 cm;

leaflets 13–21(–25), blades broadly elliptic, oval, rhombic-obovate, or obovate, (4–)6–21 mm, apex retuse or emarginate.

shortly 5–12-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1.5–4 cm in fruit.

loosely (12–)15–32-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis early elongating, (4.5–)6–14 cm in fruit.

2–5.5 cm.

(3–)5–10 cm.

13 mm;

calyx 7 mm, tube 4.5 mm, lobes 2.5 mm;

corolla purple.

11–15.6 mm;

calyx 6–7.5 mm, tube 4.4–5.7 mm, lobes (1.3–)1.5–2.4 mm;

corolla white or ochroleucous, concolorous, sometimes fading pale bluish, petals poorly graduated, banner slightly longer than wings, wings and keel nearly equal length.

mottled, ovoid-acuminate, moderately inflated, 20–24 × 8–12 mm, stiffly papery, strigulose;

beak incurved, 4.5–7 mm, bilocular.

stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate or subglobose, strongly inflated, 15–25(–32) × 10–18 mm, bilocular, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, usually glabrous, rarely minutely strigulose;

beak 3–7 mm, unilocular.

18.

17–26.

= 22.