Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, glabrous proximally, sparsely strigulose distally.

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.

5–13 cm;

stipules 3–8 mm, firm becoming papery, sometimes membranous at distal nodes or throughout;

leaflets 7–15+, blades elliptic to lanceolate, oblanceolate, or obovate, 6–38 mm, apex obtuse to acute, retuse, or mucronate, surfaces strigose or glabrous.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

6–24-flowered, flowers declined-nodding;

axis 2–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

erect, 3–18 cm.

1–5.5 mm.

1–4.5 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.

14–22(–25) mm;

calyx tan or whitish, gibbous or base strongly oblique, 8.8–14.2 mm, sparsely pale-strigulose, tube 6–8.8 mm, lobes broadly spreading, subulate, 2.3–6.5 mm;

corolla usually white, concolorous, rarely keel tip faintly purplish;

banner recurved through 50–90°;

keel 12.4–15 mm, apex sharply triangular.

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.

erect, green or reddish brown becoming brown or stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid to ellipsoid or ovoid, subterete to strongly obcompressed, 17–35 × 6–10 mm, unilocular, succulent becoming stiffly leathery, glabrous or puberulent;

sessile.

20–44.

22–38.

= 24.