Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate to ascending, 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.

1.5–4.5 cm;

stipules 1.5–4.5 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong-obovate, (2–)3–10 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

6–15-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

divaricate and spreading-incurved, 2.5–7 cm.

1–5.5 mm.

0.8–2.5 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.

8.6–10.8 mm;

calyx 3.7–5.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.4–3.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–2.4 mm;

corolla keel 8.2–9.6 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.

purplish, gently to strongly incurved to 0.5 spiral, 12–16 × 3.6–5 mm, incompletely bilocular, wider than high in cross section, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigose, hairs ± 1 mm;

septum 0.6–1 mm wide;

stipe 2–5 mm.

20–44.