Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate, radiating from crown, strigulose, hirsutulous, or subvillosulous.

(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.

1–4.5(–8) cm;

stipules mostly distinct, 1.5–3.5(–5) mm, membranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19(or 21), blades oval-obovate, obcordate, cuneate-oblanceolate, or elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–10(–14) mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose or glabrous adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(1 or)2–10-flowered, flowers spreading to declined;

axis (0–)0.3–2.5(–3.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

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

(1–)2–6(–10) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.5–2 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.

(6–)7.3–11.2 mm;

calyx 3.6–6 mm, strigulose, tube 1.9–3.5 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate to subulate, 1.3–2.5(–2.9) mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (4.5–)4.8–6.6 mm, apex bluntly 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.

spreading, declined, or ascending, green or purple-tinged becoming pale brown or stramineous, straight or incurved through 0.25–0.5 spiral, linear-oblong to lanceoloid-oblong, 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 8–20(–22) × (2–)2.2–3.7 mm, ± bilocular, papery, glabrous.

6–10.

(8–)10–15.

= 16.