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.

1.5–5.5 cm;

leaflets (9–)15–21, crowded, blades obovate or oblanceolate, (1–)2–10 mm, apex obtuse or retuse.

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

axis 1.5–4(–9) cm in fruit.

(4–)10–21-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis (0.3–)1–2.5 cm in fruit.

2–4.5(–5) cm.

0.5–2 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.

(8.8–)9.8–12 mm;

calyx (4.8–)5.4–7.3 mm, tube (3.6–)3.9–4.9 mm, lobes (1–)1.2–2.4 mm;

corolla whitish or cream, sometimes with pink tips.

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.

usually faintly mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid- or ellipsoid-acuminate, strongly inflated, 10–18 × (5–)6–12 mm, thinly papery, strigulose or, sometimes, glabrous;

beak erect or incurved, deltoid, 3–5 mm, unilocular.

(7–)16–25.

(12–)14–19.

= 22.