Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, sparsely villosulous, often glabrous basally.

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.

(4.5–)7–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (3–)4–12 mm, submembranous; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)17–29(or 31), blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, (4–)7–32 mm, apex obtuse, subacute, truncate and apiculate, or retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

20–60(–65)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming loosely declined or nodding;

axis (4.5–)6–22(–25) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, (4–)7–17 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.

15.3–18(–19) mm;

calyx cylindric or deeply campanulate, (5.5–)8.7–10.3 mm, villosulous, tube 5.9–8.4 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1.6–3.7 mm;

corolla pale cream, white, or whitish;

keel 13.1–14.7 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.

spreading or loosely pendulous, stramineous, bicarinate, obliquely elliptic, semielliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, bladdery-inflated, laterally compressed, (21–)25–45 × (6–)8–15.5 mm, thin becoming papery, translucent, lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

gynophore 3–11 mm, densely villosulous.

27–40(–46).

11–18.

= 22.