Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

single or few, usually decumbent to ascending, rarely erect, villous-hirsutulous.

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.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (5–)9–15, blades oblanceolate to oblong or obovate, 2–13 mm, apex retuse to truncate or obtuse, surfaces loosely villous, sometimes glabrate adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–7-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.3–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.5–4 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–2 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.

5.2–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–6.2 mm, hirsutulous, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely ochroleucous and tinged with purple;

banner recurved 50–70°;

keel (5–)5.4–6.5 mm, apex narrowly triangular, sometimes slightly beaklike.

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-declined, green or purple-cheeked or -dotted, becoming brownish or stramineous, lunately incurved or hooked, obliquely ovoid, turgid or somewhat inflated, 9–17(–20) × (4–)5–8(–11) mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, white-villous or hirsute, hairs spreading, curved, 0.7–2.2 mm.

27–40(–46).

10–19.

= 24.