Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, mostly unbranched.

decumbent or weakly ascending, flexuous or zigzag in age, glabrous or glabrate.

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.

5–15 cm;

leaflets 15–21(–25), blades broadly oblong-elliptic, ovate-oblong, or suborbiculate, 5–20(–25) mm, apex rounded, truncate, or retuse.

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

axis 1.5–4(–9) cm in fruit.

shortly (8–)10–25-flowered, compact in fruit;

axis little elongating, 1.5–4(–5) cm in fruit.

2–4.5(–5) cm.

(2–)3–10 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.

(12.5–)13.2–20 mm;

calyx 7.5–10.8 mm, tube (4.5–)5–7.5 mm, lobes (2.5–)3–5 mm;

corolla purple or pale pink-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, obliquely ovoid or semi-ovoid, ± strongly inflated, 13–25(–30) × 6.5–14 mm, ± bilocular, stiffly papery, glabrous;

beak 5–8 mm, unilocular.

(7–)16–25.

20–33.

= 22.