Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

ascending or sprawling, sparsely 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.

(6–)8–20 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 10–20 mm, thinly herbaceous or foliaceous becoming papery;

leaflet blades ovate to oblong or broadly elliptic, 10–45(–60) mm, apex obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

10–20-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

1.5–8 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–3 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.

11.5–13.5 mm;

calyx 5.2–6.5 mm, glabrate to sparsely strigulose, tube 3.5–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2.9 mm;

corolla keel 9.5–11 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.

brownish stramineous, (27–)30–37(–40) × 4–5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, minutely strigulose;

stipe 2–3.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

= 16.