Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent or weakly ascending, strigulose-villosulous.

(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.

4–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–4 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (11–)15–19(–23), blades oval, elliptic-obovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)5–18 mm, apex obtuse or shallowly retuse, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely 5–9-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved-ascending, (3–)4–6.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

2–4 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.

9.5–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.7–7.8 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 3.7–3.9 mm, lobes slenderly subulate, 2.8–4 mm;

corolla greenish white, often tinged or veined dull lilac;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.8–8.9 mm, apex triangular, subacute, often obscurely beaklike.

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.

loosely spreading, declined, or ascending, pale green and purple-cheeked becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 25–40 × 13–17 mm, thin, translucent, lustrous, glabrous or strigulose.

6–10.

(27–)30–39.

= 16.