Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect, ascending, or decumbent, 2–8 cm underground, 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.

1.5–8.5 cm;

stipules 2–5.5 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets 9–23, blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 1–33 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose or glabrous;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

6–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, 1–6.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1.4–4.3 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.

15–19 mm;

calyx cylindric, 5.5–8.7 mm, strigose, tube 4.7–7 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2.8 mm;

corolla white to yellowish and tinged faintly with pink, sometimes lightly suffused with pink-purple on drying, keel tip faintly to darkly purple;

keel 10.2–13 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, green or purple-mottled becoming stramineous or brownish, strongly incurved or coiled, obliquely oblong, sharply 4-sided compressed, 20–40 × 6–10 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous or strigose.

27–40(–46).

28–38.