Flora of North America species comparison

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

obscured by stipules and 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.

erect, 1–4 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, membranous becoming papery;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades linear to narrowly elliptic, 1–5 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet often decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–7-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.2–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect, 0.5–3.5 cm, together with racemes subequal to or ± surpassing leaves.

1.5–5 mm.

1–2.5 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.

5–6.5 mm;

calyx 2.3–3 mm, strigose, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–1 mm;

corolla pink-purple or white;

keel 3.7–4.4 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.

green with purple mottling, slightly curved, subglobose, 10–17 × 7–11 mm, papery-membranous, strigose.

6–10.

10–14.

= 16.