Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

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.

(1.5–)2.5–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 4–9 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (7–)11–21(–25), blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblanceolate, (2–)3–12 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or emarginate, surfaces ashen-strigulose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

densely 7–26-flowered, flowers in subcapitate cluster, ascending to spreading becoming declined proximally;

axis slightly elongating to 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

 ±scapelike, incurved-ascending, (2.5–)3.5–15(–22) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.6–1.6 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.

6.2–10.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.7–6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.3–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.7 mm;

corolla pink to pink-purple, wing tips white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 45–50°;

keel 4.3–6.8 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes 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.

in oblong or globose, headlike clusters, spreading and ascending, reddish-tinged becoming brownish, slightly incurved, obliquely-ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided and somewhat laterally compressed, 4.5–7.5 × 2–4.2 mm, fleshy and firm becoming stiffly papery or somewhat leathery, strigulose.

27–40(–46).

7–11.

= 22.