Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

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.

1–6 cm;

stipules 3–7 mm;

leaflets 3–11, blades obovate to oblanceolate or orbiculate, 1.5–8 mm, apex round to obtuse or acute, surfaces strigose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–10-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, 0.4–3 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

ascending, 1–2 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.

10–15.5(–17.5) mm;

calyx cylindric, 5.5–8.9 mm, strigose, tube 4.1–6.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.4–1.7 mm;

corolla usually white or ochroleucous, sometimes fading yellowish, suffused with purple, sometimes purple, keel tip maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (9–)10–12.5 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.

ascending, green, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or lanceoloid-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, (8–)11–19 × 3–8 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, thinly fleshy becoming papery, sometimes incipiently alveolate-spongy, walls much less than 1 mm thick, strigose.

27–40(–46).

18–33.