Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)3–25(–35) cm.

single or few to many.

1–6.5 cm;

leaflets 7–11(–17), blades often narrowly elliptic, sometimes broader proximally, apex rounded.

odd-pinnate, petiolate to subsessile;

leaflets (3 or)5–25(or 27).

(1–)2–5(–8)-flowered;

axis very short in fruit.

subumbellate or loosely flowered, flowers ascending, spreading, or declined.

3–10 cm.

calyx 3.7–5.4 mm, silvery-pilose, tube (1.5–)2–3 mm, lobes 1.8–2.1 mm;

corolla white or tipped pink or purple, banner (4–)5.5–7 mm;

keel apex triangular-acute or sharply deltate, usually beaklike.

usually pink-purple, purple or purple-tinged or -tipped, ochroleucous, or lilac, rarely whitish, banner recurved through 20–80°, keel apex acute, round, deltate, or triangular-acuminate, sometimes slightly beaklike.

tubes campanulate.

13–24 × 1.8–2.8(–3) mm, glabrous or strigulose.

deciduous, usually sessile, rarely short-stipitate, short gynophore sometimes present, ascending, spreading to declined, incurved-ascending, or pendulous, mostly linear to linear-oblanceoloid, oblong, or crescentic, sometimes 3-sided, rarely ellipsoid or fleshy, straight or incurved, rarely slightly decurved, compressed laterally, slightly 3-sided or subterete, bilocular.

14–18.

(2–)4–30.

basifixed or malpighian.

distinct.

= 24.