Flora of North America species comparison

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

single or few, decumbent with ascending tips or trailing and diffuse, densely white-strigulose-pilose.

(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–)3–9(–10) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–5(–6.5) mm, herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, or elliptic, 4–16 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or emarginate, surfaces pubescent.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(3 or)4–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.2–1 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.

(3.3–)3.5–6.5 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate, 3.3–4.3 mm, densely silvery-pilose, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly tinged with pink-lilac or cream-pink;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and 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.

ascending, incurved, semi-ellipsoid or lunately ellipsoid, slightly inflated, scarcely bladdery, 10–17 × 4.5–7 mm, thin becoming papery, opaque, canescently strigulose-pilosulous.

6–10.

(3 or)4–6(or 7).

= 16.