Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, very 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.

sometimes unifoliolate distally, 3–8.5 cm;

stipules shortly connate-sheathing and scarious at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2–8 mm;

leaflets (1 or)5–15, blades linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or filiform, 6–40 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet decurrent, 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.

12–25-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 2.5–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, (6–)8–14 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

2–6 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.

17–23 mm;

calyx 8.5–12 mm, strigulose, tube 7–10 × 3.5–4.7 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 0.8–2 mm;

corolla white;

keel 12.3–14.8 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.

pendulous, green-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, linear-ellipsoid, strongly laterally compressed, 25–45 × 3–4 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe 2–6.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

12–17.