Flora of North America species comparison

diffuse and ascending;

ashy canescent or green.

ascending to erect, mostly unbranched.

(2.5–)4–13 cm;

leaflets (7–)11–21(–25), blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblanceolate or rhombic-elliptic, 4–15(–17) mm, apex usually obtuse or emarginate, rarely acute or subacute.

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.

loosely (10–)12–25-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (3–)4–15(–17) cm in fruit.

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

axis 1.5–4(–9) cm in fruit.

3–8(–9) cm.

2–4.5(–5) cm.

11.1–15 mm;

calyx 4.7–6.5 mm, tube 3.7–5.2 mm, lobes 1–1.4(–1.5) mm, adaxial pair usually shortest;

corolla pink- or magenta-purple.

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.

pale green or mottled becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, (12–)15–27(–30) × 8–14(–15) mm, bilocular, stiffly papery, opaque, sparsely strigulose to densely and canescently strigose-villosulous;

beak (3–)4–9 mm, unilocular.

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.

23–29.

(7–)16–25.

= 22.

= 22.