Flora of North America species comparison

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

± obsolete, internodes obscured by stipules.

(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.

2–9 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm;

leaflets (5–)9 or 11, blades oblanceolate to obovate, (4.5–)5–11 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–8-flowered, flowers spreading-ascending;

axis 3–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm.

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

1.3–6 cm.

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.

19–27 mm;

calyx cylindric, 10–11.5 mm, strigulose, tube 8.5–10 mm, lobes 1–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple, fading or drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 45°.

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.

ascending (humistrate), green or purplish (not mottled), turgidly lanceoloid-ovoid (much broader basally), 15–25(–27) × 7–15 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, fleshy becoming alveolate-spongy, walls 1+ mm thick, exocarp and endocarp separated by thick, pulpy mesocarp, strigulose.

6–10.

38.

= 16.