Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, diffuse, strigulose.

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.

7–15 cm;

stipules 6–10 mm, herbaceous;

leaflet blades oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, 14–30 mm, apex obtuse to apiculate, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

7–15-flowered;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, 2–6 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

3–4 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.

13–15 mm;

calyx marcescent, 5–7 mm, glabrous, tube 3.5–5 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.5–2.5 mm;

keel 13–15 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.

brownish, slightly convex, 10–15 × 6–10 mm, subligneous becoming transversely rugose, glabrous;

stipe 6–8 mm.

27–40(–46).