Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

obsolete (reduced to 1 to several crowns), with persistent thatch of stipules and petioles.

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–)4–10 cm;

stipules 6–10 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, (3–)5–14 mm, thick, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)5–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, (2–)4–10 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

3–5 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.

35–41 mm;

calyx cylindric, 18–24 mm, villous, tube (12–)13.5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 3.5–8 mm;

corolla scarlet or crimson;

banner and keel nearly same length, recurved through 20–30°;

keel 35–40 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.

ascending (humistrate), color concealed by hairs, incurved, obliquely lanceoloid-ovoid or narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 25–40 × 9–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, concealing surface.

27–40(–46).

34–43.