Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

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.

2–8 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, membranous becoming papery;

leaflets (1 or)3 or 5, blades obovate to rhombic or elliptic, 6–25 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces densely strigose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–7-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, 1–3 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1.2–4 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.

20–28 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–17 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 10–14 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 1.8–5.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or greenish white, often tinged faintly purplish, keel tip purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 18–22 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.

ascending (humistrate), red-purple to stramineous, incurved, ovoid-acuminate, inflated, 17–30(–32) × 10–23 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, hirsute, hairs long, lustrous.

27–40(–46).

28–38.