Flora of North America species comparison

erect and ascending.

prostrate, radiating from root-crown.

(5–)7–16 cm;

leaflets 13–21(–25), blades broadly elliptic, oval, rhombic-obovate, or obovate, (4–)6–21 mm, apex retuse or emarginate.

6.5–12 cm;

leaflets 15 or 17, blades lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 7–18 mm, apex truncate or round.

loosely (12–)15–32-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis early elongating, (4.5–)6–14 cm in fruit.

12–14-flowered, floriferous from all but proximalmost nodes, short and compact in fruit;

axis 4–4.5 cm in fruit.

(3–)5–10 cm.

1.3–2 cm.

11–15.6 mm;

calyx 6–7.5 mm, tube 4.4–5.7 mm, lobes (1.3–)1.5–2.4 mm;

corolla white or ochroleucous, concolorous, sometimes fading pale bluish, petals poorly graduated, banner slightly longer than wings, wings and keel nearly equal length.

12–15 mm;

calyx 7–7.5 mm, tube 4–4.5 mm, lobes 3–3.2 mm;

corolla whitish or faintly lavender.

stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate or subglobose, strongly inflated, 15–25(–32) × 10–18 mm, bilocular, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, usually glabrous, rarely minutely strigulose;

beak 3–7 mm, unilocular.

purple-mottled becoming stramineous, broadly ovoid-acuminate, strongly inflated, 8–12 × 5–6 mm, opaque-papery, glabrous;

beak 3–5 mm, unilocular.

17–26.

not determined.

= 22.