Flora of North America species comparison

usually few or several, sometimes single, decumbent to ascending, when developed, with several, short internodes, to 2 cm, villous-tomentose.

decumbent to ascending, strigulose, villosulous, glabrous, or with few scattered hairs.

(2–)5–32 cm;

stipules (3–)4–20 mm;

leaflets (9 or)11–35, blades elliptic, suborbiculate, ovate, obovate, rhombic-elliptic, rhombic-obovate, rhombic-ovate, oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, or oval, (2–)3–30(–45) mm, apex acute, obtuse, retuse, or subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose, sometimes densely so.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules distinct, (1–)1.5–5 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(–25), blades obovate-cuneate, oblong-obovate, or elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, (7–)9–19(–21) mm, apex retuse or truncate to obtuse, surfaces strigulose or villosulous abaxially, strigose to glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

(5–)7–45-flowered;

axis (0.5–)1–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–10(–12) mm;

bracteoles 0(–2).

(5–)10–25(–35)-flowered, flowers retrorsely imbricate, ascending then nodding;

axis 2–10(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, (1.5–)2.5–24 cm.

erect or arcuate-erect, 4–15 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

11.8–25 mm;

calyx cylindric to deeply campanulate, 6.8–15.5 mm, villous-tomentose, tube (4.5–)5–13 mm, lobes lanceolate to subulate or subulate-setaceous, 1.6–5.5(–6.8) mm;

corolla pink-purple, pale purple, pinkish, cream, or yellowish suffused with dull lavender, or tipped and suffused or margined with dull purple;

keel 9–20.5 mm.

13.5–21 mm;

calyx broadly campanulate to broadly cylindric (gibbous-saccate or gibbous-truncate), 6.1–13.6 mm, strigulose or villosulous, marcescent, tube 5.4–11.9 mm, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.4–2.3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, white, or lemon yellow;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–15.2 mm.

spreading or ascending, ± straight to incurved through 0.25+ spiral, oblong-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, ovoid, or ovoid-ellipsoid, sometimes decidedly inflated (not bladdery), terete when narrow, obcompressed when broad, (6–)9–24 × (3–)4–13 mm, fleshy, stiffly papery, leathery, or subligneous, glabrous, puberulent, hispidulous, villosulous, villous-hirsute, villous-tomentulose, or villous-tomentose;

beaks sometimes unilocular.

pendulous, green or purple-spotted becoming brown-stramineous, hamately or lunately incurved or, rarely, coiled through 1.5 spirals, narrowly oblong, laterally compressed, 14–35 × (2.7)3–4.5(–5.5) mm, stiffly papery or thinly leathery, usually glabrous, villosulous, or strigulose, rarely glabrate;

stipe 6–20 mm.

12–38[–41].

14–25(–28).

= 22.