Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, mostly unbranched.

4–10 cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–19, blades broadly obovate, obovate-cuneate, obcordate, or oblong to oblanceolate, 5–20 mm, apex usually retuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrate to densely strigulose, hairs appressed or subappressed.

3–8 cm;

leaflets 11–19(or 21), blades obovate or elliptic, 2.5–11 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

10–25-flowered, floriferous from middle to distalmost nodes, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1.5–4(–9) cm in fruit.

10–15-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.5–4(–5) cm in fruit.

2–4.5(–5) cm.

(1–)2–5.5 cm.

9.5–11.5 mm;

calyx 5–6.4 mm, tube 3.6–4.2(–4.6) mm, lobes 1.2–2.2 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes wings and keel with lavender tips.

9–10.5 mm;

calyx 4.2–5.5 mm, tube 3.2–4 mm, lobes 0.8–1.4 mm;

corolla purple.

green or mottled becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, 14–26(–30) × (6–)7.5–14 mm, papery-membranous, translucent, glabrous or puberulent;

beak 3–9 mm, unilocular.

mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, 14–22(–30) × 10–16(–18) mm, papery, strigulose;

beak erect, triangular, 3–6 mm, unilocular.

(7–)16–25.

20–26.

= 22.