Flora of North America species comparison

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

forming rounded, birds-nestlike clumps, ascending to erect, many-branched, 3–14+ cm underground, strigose.

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.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules sometimes connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly distinct, 1–6 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–11(or 13), blades linear or oblong, 2–20(–25) mm, apex obtuse to emarginate or acute, surfaces pubescent or adaxially glabrous;

terminal leaflet of distal leaves decurrent and not jointed to rachis.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3–)8–33-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 1.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 4–16(–28) cm.

1–5.5 mm.

1.2–3 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.

(9–)10–15 mm;

calyx campanulate, (3.5–)3.8–7 mm, black-strigose, tube (3–)3.3–5.5 mm, lobes subulate, (0.5–)1–2.2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 30–45°;

keel (7.5–)8.4–10.3 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, not beaklike.

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.

pendulous, green or purple-tinged becoming brownish stramineous, straight or gently decurved, narrowly oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, 20–32 × 3.5–4.5 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, strigose;

stipe (2.5–)3.5–6 mm.

20–44.

(16–)20–26.