Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending, villous-villosulous.

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.

3–8.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes, (1.5–)2–6.5 mm;

leaflets 13–21, blades narrowly oblong- or cuneate-oblanceolate, (4–)6–20(–23) mm, apex truncate-retuse to obtuse, surfaces usually villosulous, sometimes glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(10–)15–25(–30)-flowered, 1 per leaf axil;

axis 3–10.5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3–)6–14 cm.

1–5.5 mm.

1.3–3.5 mm, densely villous.

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.

(11.5–)13–17.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, obliquely cuneate, 6.4–9.7 mm, silky-villous, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 5.2–7 × 3.5–4.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.9–3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or yellowish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (9.5–)10.1–12.4 mm, apex sharply deltate.

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.

green and purple-mottled becoming brown or stramineous, straight or slightly curved, linear-oblong, strongly laterally compressed, 27–43 × 3.4–5, thinly fleshy becoming papery, strigulose or glabrous;

stipe 8–14 mm.

20–44.

(15–)19–25(–27).