Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, usually shorter than longest peduncles, 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.

4–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–7 mm, scarious;

leaflets 5–15, blades filiform to linear or narrowly elliptic, 2–23 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

6–34-flowered;

axis 3–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, 4–25 cm, together with racemes longer than stems, much surpassing subtending leaves.

1.4–5 mm.

0.3–2 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.

7–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5–7.5 mm, white-pilose, tube 3–4 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla marcescent, pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 5.7–7 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-spreading, stramineous, slightly incurved, ovoid to ellipsoid, obcompressed, 5.5–8 × 2.3–3.4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming papery, strigulose.

27–40(–46).

4–6.