Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, glabrous.

(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–)4–14 cm;

stipules (2–)3–7 mm, papery-scarious proximally, submembranous distally;

leaflets 13–25(or 27), blades elliptic, narrowly oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, (3–)5–23 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)20–95-flowered;

axis 8–30 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 5–15 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.6–3 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.

4.8–6 mm;

calyx 3.5–4.4 mm, strigulose, tube 1.8–2.2 mm, lobes narrowly subulate, 1.4–2.2 mm;

corolla whitish, immaculate, drying ochroleucous;

banner abruptly recurved through 45°;

keel 3.8–4.6 mm, apex sharply or bluntly deltate, slightly 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.

stramineous, lunately semi-ovoid or lanceoloid-ovoid (in outline), 4.5–7 × 1.3–2.3 mm, bilocular, stiffly papery, glabrous.

6–10.

(2–)4–6.

= 16.

= 26.