Flora of North America species comparison

diffuse and incurved-ascending.

prostrate to weakly ascending, branched proximally.

(2.5–)4–11 cm;

leaflets 13–23, blades elliptic-oblanceolate, broadly oblong-oblanceolate, or obovate, (3–)5–17(–20) mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

3–8(–11) cm;

leaflets 11–15(–19), blades obovate or oblanceolate, 5–15 mm, apex retuse, surfaces glabrate to densely strigulose, hairs appressed or subappressed.

10–20-flowered, flowering from middle and distally, compact to loose in fruit;

axis 1.5–5.5(–7) cm in fruit.

(11–)15–30(–37)-flowered, short and dense, cylindric or globose in fruit;

axis 1–4(–7) cm in fruit.

2.5–6(–7.5) cm.

1–4(–7) cm.

(12.5–)15–18.2 mm;

calyx (6.2–)7.5–10.5 mm, tube (4.6–)5.2–6.7 mm, lobes 1.4–3.8 mm;

corolla usually bright pink-purple with pale, striate eye, rarely white (concolorous).

8.8–11 mm;

calyx 4–6.5 mm, tube 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–1.4(–2) mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes wings and keel with lavender tips.

green, sometimes stramineous or purple-mottled, almost always very strongly incurved, very obliquely ovoid-acuminate, moderately or greatly inflated, 15–30(–40) × (7–)9–15 mm, bilocular, thinly papery, semitranslucent, seeds visible, to almost leathery, opaque, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent;

beak well-defined, triangular or deltoid, 6–15 mm, unilocular.

faintly mottled becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, (8–)12–21 × (6–)7–12 mm, thinly papery, translucent, glabrous or strigulose;

beak 3–7 mm, unilocular.

(20–)24–28.

15–21(–25).