Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

few, erect or ascending, strigulose, cinereous.

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.

4.5–8.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–2.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–11, blades lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 8–16 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

4–7-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending or incurved, 1.5–2 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

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.

6–6.3 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4 mm, strigulose, tube 2.1–2.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2 mm;

corolla whitish faintly lined pink;

banner recurved through 80°;

keel 4.3–4.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, obscurely beaklike.

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.

spreading to declined, pale green and faintly brown-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, slightly obcompressed, 20–27 × 11–15 mm, thin, lustrous, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 3–3.5 mm wide.

27–40(–46).

28–30.