Flora of North America species comparison

usually ascending, rarely decumbent, 0–2 cm underground, strigulose to pilose-villosulous.

straggling to ascending or erect, mostly branched near base, 1.5–8+ cm underground, strigulose.

2.5–12 cm;

stipules 1.5–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–17, blades lanceolate to oblong, (3–)5–30(–32) mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces usually strigulose, sometimes villous-pilosulous, cinereous, glabrate, or glabrous abaxially, glabrous, glabrescent, or sparsely strigose adaxially.

2–10 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 3–8 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, firm at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–15, blades linear, oblong, or narrowly oblanceolate, 3–20 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose or, sometimes, glabrate adaxially;

terminal leaflet decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(3–)5–25(–33)-flowered;

axis 1–18(–20) cm in fruit, elongating little after flowering, arising distal to middle of stem;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles usually 0.

5–22-flowered, flowers ascending, finally nodding;

axis 2.5–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending or erect, 3.5–21(–23) cm, usually surpassing subtending leaf, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

erect or incurved-ascending, 3–10.5 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

0.8–2.2 mm.

(6–)7.2–11.5 mm;

calyx 4–6.8 mm, strigulose, tube 3.2–4.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–2.3 mm;

corolla usually purple, pink-purple, pink, lilac, lavender, or whitish, sometimes whitish with maculate keel;

wing apex obtuse;

keel 5.4–7.9 mm, shorter than wings.

8.5–12.5 mm;

calyx usually dull purple, campanulate, 3.5–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 3–4.3 mm, lobes triangular, 0.4–1.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing tips white;

banner recurved through 90–95°;

keel 8–9.8 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, not beaklike.

pendulous, green or purplish, straight or slightly decurved, ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, faces slightly convex, flattened or depressed but not sulcate abaxially, 13–25 × 3.5–5.5 mm, subunilocular or semibilocular, papery-membranous, sparsely strigulose, hairs black or black and white;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 0.2–2 mm wide;

stipe (0.5–)1.5–6.5 mm.

declined, pale green or purplish becoming stramineous, straight or gently decurved, oblong to narrowly oblanceoloid, dorsiventrally compressed in proximal 1/2, laterally compressed distally, 20–35 × 3.3–6 mm, stiffly papery, strigose;

sessile.

6–11.

21–31.