Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

ascending-erect, 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.

mostly clustered at stem base, 2.5–10 cm;

stipules mostly all connate, 2–4.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (9 or)11–15(–19), blades narrowly oblong-elliptic, linear-oblong, or oblong-obovate, (1–)2–8 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet jointed to rachis.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–8-flowered, flowers horizontal or nodding;

axis (0.5–)1–8(–11) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5(–2) mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 3–12(–15) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1–4 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.

9.5–13.2 mm;

calyx 5–8.9 mm, strigulose, tube 3.6–6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.4–2.9 mm;

corolla whitish or tinged with lavender, keel tip maculate;

keel 7.3–10.2 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, often humistrate, brightly red-mottled, decurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, inversely boat-shaped, ± 3-sided compressed, ventral suture convex in profile or at least beak declined from body, 13–22 × 4–6.5 mm, partly bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose;

septum incomplete, to 0.7 mm wide;

stipe 1.5–3.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

(14–)17–29.