Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect, 0–7 cm underground, glabrous.

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.

crowded, loosely imbricate, 1.5–6.5 cm;

stipules 2–15 mm, membranous;

leaflet blade ovate, orbiculate, or cordate, 15–65 mm, apex obtuse to rounded or retuse, surfaces glabrous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–12-flowered;

axis 0.4–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, 0.5–4.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1–5 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.

17–27 mm;

calyx 10–17 mm, black-strigose, tube 8.3–13 mm, lobes linear to subulate, 1.5–3.8 mm;

corolla keel 14.2–18.5 mm.

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.

pale green and purple-speckled becoming stramineous, straight, 25–35 × 11–16 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe 10–23 mm.

27–40(–46).

= 24.