Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually 3–10, decumbent to ascending, strigulose.

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.

2–5(–6) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–4 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades oblong-obovate, -ovate, or obovate-cuneate, (2–)3–12 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, surfaces glabrous.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–2(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–9 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(3–)7–15-flowered, flowers ascending becoming spreading, later declined;

axis (0.4–)1–3.5(–4.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

divaricate, 1–4(–5.5) cm.

1–5 mm.

0.6–1.8 mm (in fruit).

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.

6.7–9.1 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.5–4.5 mm, strigulose, tube 2–2.6 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.3–1.9 mm;

corolla whitish, banner with lavender veins;

banner incurved through 45°;

keel 4.1–5.7 mm, apex obtuse, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

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.

deflexed or declined, purplish green becoming stramineous then brownish, lunately incurved, usually obliquely linear-oblong, oblanceoloid, or semi-ellipsoid, rarely semi-ovoid, somewhat inflated, almost bladdery, usually ± 3-sided compressed, (10–)15–28 × 3–9 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, sparsely and minutely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange to 2.5 mm wide, septum 0.5–1 mm.

14–38(–46).

(6–)8–14.

= 28.