Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or sprawling, sparsely strigulose.

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.

(6–)8–20 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 10–20 mm, thinly herbaceous or foliaceous becoming papery;

leaflet blades ovate to oblong or broadly elliptic, 10–45(–60) mm, apex obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

10–20-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

1.5–8 cm.

1–5.5 mm.

0.5–3 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.

11.5–13.5 mm;

calyx 5.2–6.5 mm, glabrate to sparsely strigulose, tube 3.5–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2.9 mm;

corolla keel 9.5–11 mm.

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.

brownish stramineous, (27–)30–37(–40) × 4–5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, minutely strigulose;

stipe 2–3.5 mm.

20–44.

= 16.