Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, sparsely to densely strigulose.

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–)4.5–18 cm;

stipules 3–11 mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 11–25, blades ovate, oblong, elliptic, or narrowly oblong to linear, 5–26 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially, sometimes glabrate.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(7–)10–26(–30)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 4–10(–15) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, (1.5–)2.5–17(–35) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

spreading in fruit, 0.7–3.5 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.

12–20 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 5.4–9.5 mm, strigose, tube 4.4–8 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.7–2.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, tinged pink, purplish, pink-purple, or red-violet, keel maculate or immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–14.4 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.

usually erect, rarely deflexed, green or suffused or speckled with purple becoming brownish stramineous, oblong to ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, grooved dorsally, keeled ventrally, 12–27(–30) × 3.5–8(–9) mm, base cuneate, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming thinly or stiffly leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.5–1.2 mm wide;

stipe 6–15(–17) mm.

27–40(–46).

17–32.

= 22, 24.