Flora of North America species comparison

incurved-ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

decumbent to ascending or erect, usually strigulose, rarely pilose-pilosulous, usually cinereous or canescent, rarely greenish.

1.5–5 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (5 or)7–11, blades oblong-oblanceolate, obovate-cuneate, or cuneate, 2–8 mm, apex truncate or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or margins sparsely hairy adaxially.

3–15(–18) cm;

stipules connate, 2–10 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets (5–)9–21, blades linear, narrowly oblong, or oblanceolate to ovate, 3–31 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces silvery-strigose, rarely greenish, or glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

loosely 2–5(–7)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis (0.4–)0.7–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

6–30-flowered;

axis 2–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending or incurved-ascending, 2.5–7 cm.

erect or ascending, (3–)5–23 cm, surpassing subtending leaves.

0.5–1.5 mm.

0.7–1.2 mm.

5.4–10.5 mm;

calyx 2.9–4.3 mm, strigulose, tube 2.2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–1.5 mm;

corolla pink- or violet-purple, wings margined white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 4.3–5.8 mm, apex broadly deltate, sometimes minutely beaklike.

9–17.8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4–10 mm, pilosulous, strigulose, or hirsute, tube 3–5.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate to narrowly triangular, 2–6 mm;

corolla usually cream, lemon yellow, white, stramineous, reddish lilac, reddish purple, blue, rarely pink-purple or suffused with pale pink or purple;

banner recurved through 45(–90)°;

keel 6.5–10 mm.

deflexed, declined, or ascending (resupinate), mottled or suffused with purple, incurved, narrowly crescentic, bluntly 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 12–20 × 2.6–3.4 mm, thin becoming papery, base round, strigulose or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle.

erect, stramineous, straight, oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, 7–13 × 3.5–5.5 mm, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigose.

8–12.

(6–)8–17.

= 24.