Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

spreading to ascending, erect when young, canescent-tomentulose, distinctly woody when over-wintering.

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 2–5 mm, papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 11–25, blades oblong-obovate, -elliptic, or -oblanceolate, (1.5–)3–12 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces villosulous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

densely (15–)20–30-flowered;

axis 2–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, sometimes humistrate in fruit, 6–12 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–2 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.

10.6–12.7 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5.7–6.4 mm, villosulous, tube 3.8–4.5 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.4–2.4 mm;

corolla pale yellow, concolorous;

keel 9–10 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.

brown-stramineous, lunate, obliquely narrow-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 14–20 × 3–5 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous;

septum 1–1.3 mm wide;

stipe 4.5–9.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

16–20.