Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, densely silvery white-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–)5–15(–16.5) cm;

stipules 1.5–5 mm, papery;

leaflet blades linear or linear-oblong, (3–)5–25(–34) mm, apex truncate-emarginate or subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, densely silvery white-strigulose adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(4 or)5–20(–28)-flowered;

axis (2–)3–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, (5–)7–20 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.9–3 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.

15–22 mm;

calyx 5.5–9.5 mm, strigose, tube 3.6–5 mm, lobes subulate, (1.5–)1.8–4.3 mm;

corolla keel 10.7–15.3 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.

brownish or stramineous, strongly laterally compressed, 12–28 × 4–7.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

septum 3.5–6 mm wide; stipitate (stipe 4–8 mm).

27–40(–46).