Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns, closely invested with stipules.

obsolete, single, or few to several.

(4–)6–16 cm;

stipules 5–12 mm;

leaflets (9–)13–23, blades broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–13 mm.

odd-pinnate, petiolate;

leaflets (9 or)11–35.

densely 12–32-flowered;

axis 1.5–6 cm in fruit.

initially densely flowered, flowers spreading or ascending.

scapiform, 4–10 cm.

calyx 10–15.3 mm, tube 6.6–8.5 × 3.2–5 mm, lobes 3.3–6.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner 16–21.5 mm;

keel 12.5–14.5 mm.

purple, pinkish, pink-purple, yellowish suffused with lilac, or ochroleucous, banner recurved through 30°, keel apex round or triangular.

tubes cylindric or deeply campanulate.

± straight to gently incurved, narrowly ovoid or lunately ellipsoid, 9–13 × 4.5–6 mm, densely villous-tomentose, hairs to 1.6–2.6 mm;

beak bilocular.

deciduous, sessile, spreading or ascending, (usually humistrate), obliquely ovoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, or linear-oblong, straight or incurved, terete to obcompressed, bilocular.

19–28.

12–38[–41].

copious and commonly villous-tomentose, with shorter, usually curly, and longer spirally twisted hairs, usually turning rusty brown on drying.

basifixed.

distinct.