Flora of North America species comparison

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

few, erect or ascending, strigulose, cinereous.

(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.

4.5–8.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–2.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–11, blades lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 8–16 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

4–7-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

ascending or incurved, 1.5–2 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1–2 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.

6–6.3 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4 mm, strigulose, tube 2.1–2.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2 mm;

corolla whitish faintly lined pink;

banner recurved through 80°;

keel 4.3–4.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, obscurely 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.

spreading to declined, pale green and faintly brown-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, slightly obcompressed, 20–27 × 11–15 mm, thin, lustrous, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 3–3.5 mm wide.

6–10.

28–30.

= 16.