Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to ascending, 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.

(6–)9–22 cm;

stipules 4–8 mm, membranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets (17–)21–31, blades linear-oblong, narrowly oblong-elliptic, lanceolate, or oval, (3–)8–22 mm, apex obtuse or truncate-emarginate, 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.

15–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 8–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.7–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect, 10–25(–30) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.5–4 mm, clavately thickened in fruit.

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.

10–10.7 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5–6.3 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 3.7–4.7 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.9–)2.2–5.2 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, drying yellowish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 10.1–10.6 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.

erect, brownish stramineous, straight or slightly incurved or decurved, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 15–23 × 4.5–6.3 mm, ± bilocular, ± fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigulose;

septum 0.5–0.9 mm wide;

stipe (2.5–)3–6 mm.

6–10.

18–26.

= 16.

= 24.