Flora of North America species comparison

erect or incurved-ascending, diffuse, glabrous or glabrate.

single or few, decumbent with ascending tips or trailing and diffuse, densely white-strigulose-pilose.

3.5–15 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–25, blades obovate, suborbiculate, obcordate to oblong, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, 6–28 mm, apex retuse-emarginate to rounded, obtuse, acute, or truncate, sometimes apiculate, surfaces glabrous, hairs sometimes on margins or midrib.

(2–)3–9(–10) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–5(–6.5) mm, herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, or elliptic, 4–16 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or emarginate, surfaces pubescent.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3 or)4–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

incurved-ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

1–5.5 mm.

0.2–1 mm.

14–24 mm;

calyx purple, 6.4–12.3 mm, sparsely strigose, tube 5.1–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple, bicolored, or white to pale greenish yellow and, sometimes, modestly suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel (11.1–)11.5–19 mm, apex blunt.

(3.3–)3.5–6.5 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate, 3.3–4.3 mm, densely silvery-pilose, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly tinged with pink-lilac or cream-pink;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and beaklike.

dehiscent on plant, erect to ascending, green or red-dotted becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, ellipsoid, ovoid, or oblong-ellipsoid, inflated, 12–34 × 6–13 mm, unilocular, stiffly papery to leathery, glabrous or puberulent;

stipe 0–7 mm.

ascending, incurved, semi-ellipsoid or lunately ellipsoid, slightly inflated, scarcely bladdery, 10–17 × 4.5–7 mm, thin becoming papery, opaque, canescently strigulose-pilosulous.

20–44.

(3 or)4–6(or 7).