Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, villosulous.

(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–)5–14 cm;

stipules 3–5 mm, papery;

leaflets (17–)21–27(–33), blades oblong, obovate-cuneate, or oblanceolate, 4–14 mm, apex obtuse to truncate-retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–25-flowered;

axis 5–12.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect, 5.5–18 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1–4.5 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.

6.5–8.5 mm;

calyx 5–7.5 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–3.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.7–1.1 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel 8.2–12 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.

pendulous, stramineous, lunate, lanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, lateral face flat, dorsal face grooved, (16–)20–30 × 3–4.5(–5) mm, length 5–7 times width, stiffly papery, villosulous;

septum 2–3 mm wide;

stipe (4–)7–12(–14) mm.

6–10.

(11–)13–21.

= 16.