Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

decumbent to incurved-ascending or erect, densely gray-villous, densely white-tomentose basally.

1.5–14(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)4–11 mm, submembranous becoming scarious or papery;

leaflets 1–13(or 15), blades obovate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or orbiculate, 3–20 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

(2–)3–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, (1.5–)2–7 mm, scarious proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets (9–)13–21, blades elliptic-oblanceolate to oval-obovate, 3–10(–14) mm, apex acute to abruptly short-acuminate, apiculate, or obtuse, surfaces villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

12–20(–26)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 2.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)3–7 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.6–1.7 mm.

14–32 mm;

calyx cylindric or campanulate, 7–20 mm, villous, tube 5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 1–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–26 mm.

9–14.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.2–8.2 mm, villous, tube 3.5–4.3 mm, lobes subulate or setaceous, 2.4–4.3 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, tinged or veins purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 6.6–9 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

ascending (humistrate), brown-stramineous, incurved, obliquely ovoid, obcompressed, (13–)18–28(–36) × 7–13(–17) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely hirtellous to densely villous-tomentose, usually concealing surfaces.

spreading to declined, stramineous, gently incurved or falcate, obliquely oblong, linear-oblong, or narrowly lanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, (10–)12–18 × 3–4.5 mm, thin becoming papery, villous or villous-villosulous.

27–40(–46).

(10–)12–16.

= 24.