Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, fistulose, white and villous-tomentulose.

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.

(3–)4–16 cm;

stipules 3–10 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflet blades oblong-ovate or -obovate to lanceolate-elliptic, 3–20 mm, apex acute, obtuse and apiculate, or apiculate, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

35–60-flowered;

axis 3.5–10(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

spreading or incurved-ascending, 2.5–9 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–1.5 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.

9.1–11.7 mm;

calyx 6.2–8.1 mm, villous-villosulous, tube 3.3–4.1 mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate to caudate, 2.5–5(–6) mm;

corolla keel 6.4–8.5 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.

stramineous, 6.5–9 × (2.5–)3–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, villous or villous-tomentulose;

gynophore 0.5–0.7 mm.

27–40(–46).