Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

ascending (and somewhat sprawling from the root-crown) to erect, 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.

3.2–22 cm;

stipules 3–9 mm, membranous;

leaflets (1 or)3–13, blades elliptic to rhombic, 7–23(–45) mm, apex acute to mucronate, surfaces sparsely strigose or glabrous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

7–20-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 1–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved, 1.4–10 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–2.5 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.

17–19 mm;

calyx 6.7–10 mm, strigulose, tube 5.5–6.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.1 mm;

corolla white, concolorous, drying white or ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 40–50°;

keel 13 mm, apex blunt.

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-declined, pallid-stramineous or brownish, straight or slightly incurved subcylindroid, inflated, 25–32(–38) × 10–15 mm, leathery, strigose;

unilocular;

sessile or subsessile.

27–40(–46).

38–44.