Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

decumbent or curved-ascending, 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.

2–10 cm;

stipules 3–6 mm, membranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 13–21, blades elliptic to oblong, oblanceolate, or obovate, 2–12 mm, apex obtuse to truncate, surfaces glabrous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5 or)6–9-flowered, flowers spreading to ascending;

axis 3–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.2–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or ascending, 4.5–8.8 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

2–3.5 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.

17–21 mm;

calyx greenish to stramineous, 6.3–8 mm, sparsely black-strigose, tube 5–6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2 mm;

corolla white;

banner recurved through 30°;

keel 13–15 mm, apex obtuse.

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, stramineous, straight, oblong-ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, inflated, 15–23 × 6–11 mm, thinly leathery, scabrid-pubescent;

unilocular;

stipe 2–2.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

20–38.