Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

decumbent or ascending, villosulous.

1.5–13 cm;

stipules 3.5–10 mm, firmly papery;

leaflets (1 or)3 or 5, blades elliptic to lanceolate, 5–35(–47) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

5.5–15 cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–8(–12) mm, herbaceous;

leaflets (11–)17–27(or 29), blades oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, or obovate, (4–)7–22(–25) mm, apex acute or truncate and apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so adaxially.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(8–)10–30(–35)-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–15(–20) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 3.5–10(–12) cm.

1.2–4 mm.

1–6.4 mm.

(18.5–)20–28 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–16 mm, strigose-pilose, tube 9.5–13.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (18–)19–22.7 mm.

8.3–11.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.5–8.7 mm, densely villosulous, tube 3.6–4.5 mm, lobes lanceolate or subulate, 2.5–4.3 mm;

corolla pale or greenish yellow;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.5–9.1 mm, apex sharply triangular, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

ascending to spreading (humistrate), green or purplish, incurved, obliquely ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 15–36 × 8–17 mm, unilocular, thickly succulent becoming alveolate-spongy, spongy-thickened cellular tissue 1.5–2 mm thick, hirsutulous to villous-hirsute, hairs spreading, 0.6–2 mm.

spreading to declined or ascending, pale green, usually red-cheeked, becoming stramineous, straight, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 20–40 × 14–20 mm, thin becoming papery, sparsely to quite densely villosulous or strigulose-villosulous, hairs 1+ mm.

33–53.

29–52.