Flora of North America species comparison

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

obscured by stipules and marcescent leaf bases.

(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.

palmately trifoliolate, 1–13 cm;

stipules sometimes ruptured in age, 6–18 mm, hyaline;

leaflet blades spatulate to elliptic, (3–)7–27(–37) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces silvery-strigose.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

1–3-flowered, capitate;

axis very short in fruit;

bracts tridentate, 4.5–7.6 mm;

bracteoles 0(or 1).

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

obsolete.

1.5–5 mm.

0–1.6 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.

16–29 mm;

calyx 9.3–18(–20) mm, loosely villous, tube (6.5–)10–14(–16) mm, lobes linear or narrowly subulate, 1.6–4 mm;

corolla usually whitish to ochroleucous, rarely purple, petals usually glabrous, banner rarely puberulent adaxially;

banner not differentiated into blade and claw;

keel 10.4–21.8 mm.

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.

straight, ovoid-ellipsoid, 6–10 × 2.5–5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, densely strigose-hirsutulous.

6–10.

10–17.

= 16.