Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

obscured by stipules.

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.

1.5–7.5 cm;

stipules 3–6.5 mm, membranous, pallid, with green midrib;

leaflets 3 or 5, blades oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 5–17 mm, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces strigose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

1–3-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis to 0.3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, prostrate in fruit, 0.5–3.5 cm, mostly shorter than leaves.

1.4–5 mm.

1.5–3 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.

24.5–32 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–17 mm, strigulose, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 10.2–13 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple or purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 21.5–24.5 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.

ascending, stramineous, ± straight, obliquely lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 20–35(–40) × 8–12 mm, unilocular, valves much less than 1 mm thick, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose, hairs appressed, 0.5–0.7 mm.

27–40(–46).

38–54.