Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, very sparsely 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.

sometimes unifoliolate distally, 3–8.5 cm;

stipules shortly connate-sheathing and scarious at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 2–8 mm;

leaflets (1 or)5–15, blades linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or filiform, 6–40 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet decurrent, 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.

12–25-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 2.5–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

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

erect, (6–)8–14 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

2–6 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.

17–23 mm;

calyx 8.5–12 mm, strigulose, tube 7–10 × 3.5–4.7 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 0.8–2 mm;

corolla white;

keel 12.3–14.8 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.

pendulous, green-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, linear-ellipsoid, strongly laterally compressed, 25–45 × 3–4 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe 2–6.5 mm.

6–11.

12–17.