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.

single, erect or prostrate to ascending, 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–)3–8 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, papery;

leaflets 7–13, blades broadly or narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, (3–)5–15 mm, apex obtuse, shallowly emarginate, or subacute, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(5–)7–45-flowered;

axis (0.5–)1–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–10(–12) mm;

bracteoles 0(–2).

6–10-flowered, flowers loosely ascending or in age declined;

axis (1–)1.5–3.5(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2, minute when present.

ascending, (1.5–)2.5–24 cm.

ascending, 2–5 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

1–2 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.

7.8–10.4 mm;

calyx often purplish, campanulate, 4–4.6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.5–3.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 5.9–6.6 mm, apex blunt.

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.

horizontal or declined, stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, plumply ovoid or broadly oblong-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, subterete, (13–)15–25 × 11–15 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, somewhat lustrous, sparsely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 1–2.5 mm wide;

gynophore to 2 mm.

12–38[–41].

19–24.

= 22.

= 22.