Flora of North America species comparison

single or few, usually decumbent to ascending, rarely erect, villous-hirsutulous.

erect or ascending, (0–)1–12+ cm underground, villous.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (5–)9–15, blades oblanceolate to oblong or obovate, 2–13 mm, apex retuse to truncate or obtuse, surfaces loosely villous, sometimes glabrate adaxially.

(2–)3–12 cm;

stipules distinct, subterranean ones often fully amplexicaul but distinct, 7–15 mm, foliose at distal nodes;

leaflets (5–)7–13(–15), blades elliptic, oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, 10–30(–35) mm, pinnately veined, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–7-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.3–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending, 0.5–4 cm.

erect, 3–9.8 cm, usually longer than subtending leaf.

0.8–2 mm.

1.5–5 mm.

5.2–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–6.2 mm, hirsutulous, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely ochroleucous and tinged with purple;

banner recurved 50–70°;

keel (5–)5.4–6.5 mm, apex narrowly triangular, sometimes slightly beaklike.

13–19 mm;

calyx campanulate to subcylindric, 7.5–8.8 mm, villosulous, tube 6.3–8 mm, lobes broadly triangular, 0.6–0.8 mm;

corolla yellowish with whitish margins, banner sometimes purple bordered white, keel 13.2–16 mm.

spreading-declined, green or purple-cheeked or -dotted, becoming brownish or stramineous, lunately incurved or hooked, obliquely ovoid, turgid or somewhat inflated, 9–17(–20) × (4–)5–8(–11) mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, white-villous or hirsute, hairs spreading, curved, 0.7–2.2 mm.

green becoming brown, ± straight, ovoid, inflated, 15–21 × 5.5–8 mm, papery-membranous, black-pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm;

stipe 5–7 mm, pubescent.

10–19.

6–10.

= 24.

= 16.