Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, 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.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 4–13 mm;

leaflets 5–13, blades linear-oblong, 10–45(–60) mm, margins flat, elevated, apex obtuse to apiculate, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

6–20-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 2–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

erect and incurved-ascending, 3–12 cm.

1–5.5 mm.

1.5–4 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.

24–30 mm;

calyx 10–14.5 mm, strigose, tube 7–10.2 × 4.5–6.2 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4.5 mm;

corolla white, concolorous;

keel 13.6–20.2 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.

deflexed, brown or stramineous, straight, oblong-ellipsoid, subterete becoming laterally compressed, 13–33 × 6–12 mm, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous or minutely puberulent;

sessile.

20–44.

20–28.