Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to sprawling, to 7 cm, internodes often shorter than stipules, villous-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.

(1.5–)2.5–9 cm;

stipules 2–10 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19, often crowded, blades elliptic to broadly obovate, 3–13 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or shortly acuminate, surfaces villous.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

incurved-ascending, decumbent in fruit, (3–)5–13 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.8–2.2 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.

16–18.5 mm;

calyx purplish, usually cylindric, sometimes cylindro-campanulate, 8.2–10.7 mm, villosulous, tube 6.6–8.9 mm, lobes subulate or subulate-triangular, 1.5–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple or pallid;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 14.3–16.8 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.

ascending (humistrate), gently incurved, obliquely lanceoloid-oblong, obcompressed to 3-sided compressed, (13–)15–25 × 4.5–9 mm, bilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, hairs to 1 mm; inflexed, especially proximal 1/2, as a narrow, complete septum.

6–10.

18–24.

= 16.