Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate to decumbent-ascending, 5–14 cm underground, 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.

1.5–4.5 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 2–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 7–15, blades oblong to narrowly elliptic, 6–23 mm, apex retuse to truncate, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–20-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 1.5–8.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 1.

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

divaricate and incurved-ascending, 2–6.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1.5–2.5 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.

8–9 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.8–5.3 mm, strigose, tube 3.3–4 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1.3 mm;

corolla dull pink-purple, or lilac to vivid reddish purple;

banner recurved through 90–100°;

keel 8–8.5 mm, apex sharply deltate.

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.

declined or pendulous, green or faintly red-dotted becoming stramineous, usually straight or incurved, rarely decurved, narrowly ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 13–30 × 3–4.8 mm, semibilocular, papery, strigose;

valves inflexed, septum 0.3–0.6 mm;

stipe 0–0.8 mm.

6–10.

16 or 17.

= 16.