Flora of North America species comparison

usually obscured by stipules, or internodes to 2 cm, villous to villous-tomentose.

diffuse or erect to decumbent-clambering, sparsely strigulose-pilosulous.

1–12(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)3–15 mm, membranous;

leaflets (3 or)5–17(–21), blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, elliptic to oblanceolate, or rhombic-elliptic, 2–14(–20) mm, apex usually acute, subacute, acuminate, or obtuse, rarely truncate-emarginate, surfaces densely villous.

2–10 cm;

stipules (1–)2–11 mm, papery-scarious proximally, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets 13–23, blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, 4–18 mm, apex obtuse to retuse or acute, surfaces strigulose.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–2(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–9 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–15-flowered, flowers ascending-erect;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending or erect, decumbent in fruit, 1.5–10.5 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 1.5–15 cm.

1–5 mm.

0.5–1.5 mm.

19–25(–27) mm;

calyx cylindric, cylindro-campanulate, or campanulate, (5.5–)6–16(–19) mm, villous-pilose, tube (4–)4.5–12(–13.6) mm, lobes subulate, 1–6(–7) mm;

corolla white, cream, purple, or pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8–21.2(–22.5) mm.

17–24 mm;

calyx cylindric, 7–12.5 mm, villous, tube 5–7.8 mm, lobes linear, 2.5–5.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, sometimes ochroleucous or nearly white;

keel 11.4–14 mm.

initially ascending (humistrate), brownish, not mottled or spotted, incurved, ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 7–26(–30) × 3.5–11(–13) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, mostly shaggy-villous, sometimes tomentose or villous-hirsute, hairs 1.6–4(–5) mm, often concealing surface;

sessile or subsessile, or gynophore 0.5+ mm.

erect, green becoming dark, ± straight, oblong-ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, 7–10 × 2.8–4.5 mm, sulcate abaxially, scarcely swollen, thinly papery, densely silky-villous;

stipe 0.3–1 mm.

14–38(–46).

= 16.