Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, 2–6 cm underground, gray-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.

0.6–9 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, or amplexicaul and connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 1.5–4 mm;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades linear to narrowly oblong, 1.5–12.5 mm, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet often continuous with rachis.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–15-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 2–11 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

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

4–7.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1–2.5 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.

8–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5–6.5 mm, strigose, tube 3.5–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–2.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, suffused with purple, faintly lilac-tinged;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 7.5–9.7 mm, apex slightly beaked.

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, stramineous, straight to slightly curved, oblong-ellipsoid, terete or dorsiventrally compressed, slightly inflated, 21–34 × 2.8–5 mm, papery, strigose;

stipe to 1 mm.

6–10.

18–22.

= 16.