Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent and ascending, woolly-tomentulose.

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.

(2.5–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 2–5.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflet blades oblong-oblanceolate, oblong-obovate, or oblong-ovate, (3–)6–12(–22) mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces white-pannose.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

10–30-flowered;

axis (1–)2–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

ascending, (3–)5–13 cm.

1–5.5 mm.

0.8–3 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.

12.5–16 mm;

calyx 6.6–7.9 mm, white-tomentulose, tube 4.1–4.8 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.3–3.5 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, concolorous, drying yellowish;

keel (9–)9.3–12 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.

pale green or purplish becoming stramineous, 16–26 × (9–)13–23 mm, papery, somewhat translucent, finely tomentulose.

20–44.