Flora of North America species comparison

2–30 cm.

single or few to many.

1.5–4.5(–5) cm;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades narrowly cuneate to oblong, oval, or oblong-cuneate, apex retuse or deeply emarginate.

odd-pinnate, petiolate to subsessile;

leaflets (3 or)5–25(or 27).

1–4-flowered;

axis very short in fruit.

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

(0.2–)0.5–4.5 cm.

calyx 3–4.6 mm, pilosulous, tube 1.6–2.7 mm, lobes 1.5–2.1 mm;

corolla banner (4–)4.9–6.7 mm;

keel apex triangular, slightly 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.

13–18 × 2.6–3.2 mm, loosely 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.

10–16.

(2–)4–30.

basifixed or malpighian.

distinct.