Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, fistulose, 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.

8–18 cm;

stipules distinct, (2–)3.5–7.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (19 or)21–29, blades ovate-oblong to lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, (4–)8–21 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, usually apiculate, surfaces sparsely strigose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(13–)18–25-flowered, flowers spreading or weakly ascending;

axis (5–)9–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles (0–)2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (6–)12–20 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.9–3.5 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.

(9.5–)12–15 mm;

calyx purplish, campanulate, (4.7–)5–7.2 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube (2.7–)3–4.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2.7 mm;

corolla whitish, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 45°, 12–15 mm;

keel 8–10.5 mm, apex blunt and narrowly deltate.

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, pale green and purplish-tinged becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely semi ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, (15–)20–28 × (8–)10–15(–18) mm, beak prominent, papery, sparsely strigulose.

27–40(–46).

29–40.