Flora of North America species comparison

incurved-ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

erect, strigulose or glabrous, or glabrate proximally.

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.

3.5–11 cm;

stipules 2–9 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades broadly obovate-cuneate or obovate-flabellate, 7–15(–18) mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces glabrous.

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.

(7–)12–33-flowered;

axis 4–20(–28) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending or incurved-ascending, 2.5–7 cm.

erect, 3.5–15 cm.

0.5–1.5 mm.

0.5–2 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.

8–11 mm;

calyx 4.7–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 3–3.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–2 mm;

corolla white, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 60–80°;

keel 6.8–7.7 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.

incurved-ascending, green, sometimes purple-tinged or -mottled, becoming stramineous, sometimes suffused with purplish brown, incurved through 0.25 spiral, 8–15 × 3–5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

stipe (2.5–)3–5 mm.

8–12.

= 24.