Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or diffuse, 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.

1.5–7.5 cm;

stipules (1–)1.5–4(–5), papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 7–17(–21), blades cuneate-oblanceolate, oblong, or cuneate-obcordate, 2–10(–12) mm, apex truncate to deeply retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes adaxially glabrescent.

3–24-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3–)7–17(–20)-flowered;

axis 1–3.5(–5) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect-ascending, 2–15 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (1–)2.5–5(–6.5) cm.

1–5.5 mm.

1–2.5 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.

14.7–20 mm;

calyx 5.2–8(–9.1) mm, villosulous, tube 4.7–7.3 mm, not swollen or gibbous proximally, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.5–1.2 mm;

corolla whitish or tinted lilac, keel tip maculate;

keel 10.6–13(–14.5) 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.

pendulous, green or slightly mottled, becoming brown or stramineous, coiled through flat 1.25–2.5 spirals, or elaborately and irregularly contorted, linear-oblong, laterally compressed, 9–14 × (2.7–)3.2–5(–6) mm, stiffly leathery or subligneous, strigulose;

stipe (4–)5–11 mm.

20–44.

(14–)20–28(–30).

= 22.