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.

spreading to ascending and diffuse, with well-developed internodes, sparsely strigulose.

(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–)4.5–10.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–6 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets (7–)15–25, blades linear-oblong, -oblanceolate, or filiform, 1–11 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(5–)7–45-flowered;

axis (0.5–)1–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–10(–12) mm;

bracteoles 0(–2).

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2–)3–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, (1.5–)2.5–24 cm.

(0.5–)1.5–7 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

0.7–2 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.

6–8.2 mm;

calyx 2.5–5 mm, strigulose, tube (1.5–)1.8–3 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2 mm;

corolla usually white or whitish, rarely yellow, drying yellowish, banner sometimes brownish-striate;

banner abruptly recurved through (50–)85–100°;

keel 4.7–5.7 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, stramineous, slightly incurved, lunately semi-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 9–16 × 3–4.5 mm, papery, finely strigulose;

septum 1.3–2 mm wide;

stipe 3–5 mm.

12–38[–41].

11–16.

= 22.