Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect-ascending, 1–7 cm, internodes mostly concealed by imbricate stipules and marcescent leaf remains, 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.

(2–)5–17 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–19(–23), blades obovate, ovate, elliptic, or suborbiculate, 3–21 mm, apex usually obtuse or retuse and mucronate, rarely abruptly cuspidate-acuminate, surfaces strigose or glabrous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

1–7(or 8)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

0.5–6(–7) cm, together with racemes shorter than leaves.

1.4–5 mm.

3.5–8 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.

15–23(–26) mm;

calyx cylindric, (7–)8.5–13.5(–16) mm, strigulose, tube (5.2–)6–10 mm, lobes subulate or lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–4.5(–6) mm;

corolla pink-purple or white with pale pink veins;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11.5–17.5 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.

appearing radical, forming ring on ground beneath tufted foliage, ascending, greenish, brightly mottled reddish purple, becoming brownish stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, symmetrically or somewhat obliquely ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 35–70(–90) × 15–45 mm, papery, surface lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

gynophore 2–4 mm.

27–40(–46).

38–54.