Flora of North America species comparison

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

from rhizome buds, internodes short and strongly flexuous, decumbent, ascending distally, 3–10(–14) cm underground, strigose.

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.

(2.5–)5–15 cm;

stipules bidentate, (2.5–)3.5–11 mm, papery, pallid;

leaflets (7 or)9–15(–21), blades broadly obovate or suborbiculate-obcordate, 4–20 mm, apex obtuse or widely and shallowly notched, surfaces strigose, sometimes less densely so 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.

(15–)20–35-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–7.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5.5 mm.

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

erect or divaricate, 1.5–5.5 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

0.6–2.2 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.

15.5–19 mm;

calyx deeply campanulate or subcylindric, 6.5–10 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 5.5–7.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 11.5–13.5 mm.

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.

erect or narrowly ascending, brown, ± straight or incurved through 0.25 spiral, oblong, slightly obcompressed, 1–1.5(–1.8) × (3–)4–6 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely strigulose;

sessile.

6–11.

(17–)20–28.