Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

strigulose-canescent.

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.

1–4(–6) cm;

stipules 1.5–4.5 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–11(–17), blades elliptic to obovate, 1.5–10 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

1–4-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0–8 mm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 0.8–4.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.7–4 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.

6–8 mm;

calyx 3.7–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 1.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.9–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 80°;

keel 6–7.4 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-ascending, purple-mottled becoming stramineous, incurved, obliquely oblong, 3-sided and laterally compressed, 8–10 × 3–4 mm, papery, strigulose, hairs often contorted;

gynophore 0–0.8 mm.

27–40(–46).

7–10.