Flora of North America species comparison

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

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.

(1–)1.5–5.5 cm;

stipules 2–5.5 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (7 or)9–15, not crowded, blades obovate- or oblong-elliptic, 0.7–10 mm, apex abruptly acuminate, surfaces pilosulous.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

4–10-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 3–15 mm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect, 1.5–3.5(–4) cm, shorter than leaves.

1.5–5 mm.

0.9–1.5 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.

7.3–10 mm;

calyx 4.5–6.9 mm, pilosulous, tube 2.5–3.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–3.1 mm;

corolla whitish, fading ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 40°.

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, humistrate, obliquely semi-ovoid, compressed, 6 × 3 mm, papery, strigulose.

6–10.

4–6.

= 16.