Flora of North America species comparison

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

diffuse, sparsely strigulose.

(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.

3.5–7 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 7–11, blades linear to linear-elliptic, (5–)8–20 mm, apex obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–18-flowered;

axis 3–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 3–6 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1.3 mm.

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.

6.5–7 mm;

calyx 3–3.3 mm, strigose, tube 2.3–2.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.7–0.9 mm;

corolla whitish, tinged with lilac;

keel 5.5–5.9 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.

spreading or declined, green or purple-mottled becoming stramineous, ± straight, narrowly and subsymmetrically oblong-ellipsoid, 8–11 × 2.4–2.8 mm, papery, strigulose;

stipe 4–5 mm.

6–10.

8–10.

= 16.