Flora of North America species comparison

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

rarely more than 15, erect, ascending, prostrate, or decumbent, glabrate, sparsely strigulose, villosulous, or pilose.

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.

1–6.5(–9.5) cm;

stipules (1–)1.5–6(–9) mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–19(–23), blades linear-elliptic and linear-oblong to obovate, 2–14(–17) mm, apex acute to emarginate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous or pubescent adaxially.

(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.

(1 or)2–10(–27)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0–2(–)3 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, (0.2–)0.5–9(–10) cm.

0.5–3 mm.

0.4–1.6 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.

3.7–13 mm;

calyx (1.7–)3–5.6(–5.7) mm, strigulose, hirsutulous, or pilose, tube (1–)1.3–3.1 mm, lobes linear-setaceous to narrowly lanceolate, (0.7–)1–3.2 mm;

corolla whitish, lilac, or pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel 3.7–6.8(–9.3) mm, apex obtusely round to sharply deltate, beaklike or not.

glabrous.

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.

ascending, spreading, or declined, green or purple-tinged becoming stramineous or brownish then black, ± straight or incurved through 0.3–0.5 spiral, linear or linear-oblanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, dehiscent on plant, (7–)10–26 × (1.6–)2.1–3.5 mm, usually bilocular, rarely ± unilocular, thin becoming papery, glabrous, strigulose, or villosulous, hairs straight;

stipe (0–)0.5–0.9 mm.

6–11.

10–22.